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by Tsujiban
on Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:07 pm |
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Over the past month I've noticed that if I rest my cigarette in the ashtray for more than a minute or so, it seems to go out. I thought it must have been a manufacturing problem so I returned the carton to the store. I got another carton--same problem. When I took that one back, the lady behind the counter explained that about a month ago, all cigarettes had to comply with this new "Fire Standards Compliance" law. If your pack has "FSC" on it somewhere, you have the new smokes.
Turns out they have built in two little strips of "less porous material" into our smokes to help the cigarettes self-extinguish:
http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/fire/fmfiresafecig.html
...my smoke almost just went out while I was copy/pasting that URL... hooray.
On top of everything else they've done, this pisses me off to no end. Smokes cost almost $0.25 each now, and when a cigarette goes out, in my opinion, it does not taste as good when it is relit. And apparently according to the bill passed last week, they are considering lowering the nicotine in smokes somehow, which means I will have to smoke *more* to get the same effect...
Every time one of my smokes goes out from now on, I am going to get a little bit angrier...
I foresee a time in the not-too-distant future where the only place we will be allowed to smoke will be in special "Smoke Concentration Areas" surrounded by concertina wire, filled with hand-wringing soccer moms and sanctimonious hippies who spit in our faces the whole time while we sit there constantly flicking our lighters trying to keep our god damned cigarettes lit...
grrrr.....
"REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD." -- Ben Franklin
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by libertarian99
on Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:52 pm |
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Tsujiban wrote: And apparently according to the bill passed last week, they are considering lowering the nicotine in smokes somehow, which means I will have to smoke *more* to get the same effect...
That was the big issue with the "light" cigarettes. People bought them thinking they were safer, but then they just smoked more to get their nicotine levels up to the usual level. They also inhaled more deeply, so some of them ended up getting a different form of lung cancer. That's what the lawsuit about the "light" cigarettes was all about, and that's why they won't be able to use that word any more.
There will still be some a**holes who want to lower the nicotine levels, but at least there are some enlightened people making the rules who know lowering the nicotine levels will actually cause more health problems and therefore create more health expenses, which is all they really care about anyway. Since it's been established in a court of law, there's no way anyone can argue they didn't know what would happen if they lowered the nicotine levels. |
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by Tsujiban
on Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:51 pm |
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Apparently there is a chemical being used in the new FSC cigarettes called Ethylene Vinyl Acetate. There is a video here discussing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mTXZVCOM0Y
There is also an online petition to repeal the FSC smokes, but I get the impression it is for Pennsylvania only? Not sure, but here is the petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/repeal-fire-safe-cigarette-laws
In looking into this, I have also seen people claim that Sodium Silicate is being added to the FSC cigarettes. I'm not a chemist and don't know how accurate these claims are, but they are worth bringing up here I thought.
There is also a pro-smoking organization in NYC which opposes FSC as well as the current ban in bars and restaurants:
http://www.nycclash.com
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