In a highly litigious environment, companies will go out of their way to avoid any kind of potential lawsuit or regulatory action, but folks are often not very subtle about their alternative use cases.

Redditor u/KKarelzabijak321 wanted to know which products are overwhelmingly used in ways that contradict the marketing and instructions from the manufacturer, and thousands of knowing responses flooded the thread in under 24 hours.

We picked out a few of the very clever "misused" products that either skirt legal issues or simply avoid unwanted attention for their more notorious uses. If you can think of any other tricky products like these, feel free to throw 'em out in the comment section below.

Please, these are for target practice only

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Ah, yes, everyone loves to grind herbs, and smoke 'dried tobacco' out of water pipes

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It's for your neck, your back, your...

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Why else would you need fake pee?

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Cotton swabs are clearly only supposed to be used externally

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The marketing around these are increasingly problematic — the scented ones particularly

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In spite of the fall of VHS, the cleaning products are doing great

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Wine and beer was a pretty big hassle back then

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