Putting Vaseline on a tick to smother it - skin breather - is an old folk method. A touch of acetone on a q-tip aggravates 'em enough to let go, too, though I have heard that they sort of vomit reflexively as they expire.
Hi Martin,
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> I don't know if you've ever tried to remove a deer tick. They're about
> 1mm long and GLUE their jaws to your skin. Using tweezers (or worse
> yet, a hemostat) only serves to inject the contents into your skin.