Uh, smole? I use a couple of strike on box match heads, in a bottle cap, to keep the mice OUT of the pantry. I've never seen the mice get to anything within a half foot of the matches, or anything that they had to go over the matches to get to. They don't like the smell in my experince.

I grew up in a house with enough mice to keep four cats fit, trim and leathal. They line the corpses up at my folks bedroom door. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> And yes, they heat solely with a woodstove. For years, we used strike anywheres until they became hard to get, and nothing ever happened.