Fire Safe Cigs?

[Heller]

cliffs

-adding Sodium Silicate to the cigs ( speed bumps) so the junkies can't nod off and start a fire.

I don't smoke cigs (anymore atleast) but i do have friends that do.

how was this shit just "added" without a mass public announcement.?

This might be old but u used the search :shocked:

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[IronWing]

The problem with smoking is that it takes too long to kill the smoker. Two weeks should be the limit. If this is a step in that direction, I'm fer it.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

WTF. I thought something was wrong with me! In May I realized that I was gagging, A LOT, when I was smoking.

 

[drdops]

i miss smoking

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'm sure it's fine. After all, corporations are marketing this to save lives, and we all know that the corporations have our best interests at heart right? After all, we've given them the ability to set policy by purchasing our politicians so they must be trustworthy right?

 

[lxskllr]

Buy loose tobacco/papers, and roll your own. There's no cost savings anymore, but they taste much better, and you can customize the size. In addition to that a mint leaf or 2 in the summer, rolled into the cigarette is pretty tasty :^)

 

[CallMeJoe]

Ironically, what they need to do is remove chemicals from cigarettes. Go to a real tobacconist and buy a pack of Canadian imports; I used to smoke Export-A and Player's filters, and the Canadian tobacco companies weren't allowed to add anything but flavorings (menthol, etc.). If you set a pure tobacco cigarette down in an ashtray and stop drawing on, it goes out all by itself, no additives required. Tastes better, too.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe
Ironically, what they need to do is remove chemicals from cigarettes. Go to a real tobacconist and buy a pack of Canadian imports; I used to smoke Export-A and Player's filters, and the Canadian tobacco companies weren't allowed to add anything but flavorings (menthol, etc.). If you set a pure tobacco cigarette down in an ashtray and stop drawing on, it goes out all by itself, no additives required. Tastes better, too.

I've wondered if American Spirits have to comply with the law. They go out buy themselves if you don't keep hitting on them, and that is the stated goal....

 

[440sixpack]

Originally posted by: Heller

how was this shit just "added" without a mass public announcement.?

It's being enacted on a state-by-state basis (my lab tests these cigarettes for the state of Massachusetts). If you want details on the legislation behind this you can find it here.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Heller

how was this shit just "added" without a mass public announcement.?

It's assumed that if you smoke you don't give a shit about what you put into your body, so why tell them about it? They'll just whine about it for a while... and then keep on smoking with some extra coughing. Maybe it'll actually be bad enough to get people to quit! I don't see a downside to this.

 

[Rubycon]

I'll be sure to stow fireproof cigarettes next to the fine crystal castanets! :laugh:

 

[paulney]

Cigars is where it's at. Switch from cigarettes - problem solved.

 

[clamum]

Looks like I'll be switching to rolling my own.

 

[minendo]

I've been told that these fire-proof cigarettes are stamped with SS on the bottom of the pack. Is this true?

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Buy loose tobacco/papers, and roll your own. There's no cost savings anymore, but they taste much better, and you can customize the size. In addition to that a mint leaf or 2 in the summer, rolled into the cigarette is pretty tasty :^)

it's still significantly cheaper to roll your own. 1lb goes for ~ $40 plus tubes runs about $55 delivered for at least 2 cartons. and yeah, they definitely taste better.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: rise

it's still significantly cheaper to roll your own. 1lb goes for ~ $40 plus tubes runs about $55 delivered for at least 2 cartons. and yeah, they definitely taste better.

I never really got on with the tubes. I always rolled them using loose papers. I knew they passed a huge tax on RYO tobacco($24 per pound if memory serves), but I more or less quit smoking about a year ago. I smoke 1 or 2 cigarettes per week, but that's it. I'm currently using Prince Albert tobacco. It leaves a bit of a heavy taste in the mouth, but I like it better than any pre-rolled available.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: minendo
I've been told that these fire-proof cigarettes are stamped with SS on the bottom of the pack. Is this true?

they actually have "FSC" on the barcode, if you look its there and obvious, very easy to tell if they are FSC or not... if there is no FSC they arent FSC... well atleast thats how indiana and IL do it i believe.

 

[Heller]

Originally posted by: rise

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Buy loose tobacco/papers, and roll your own. There's no cost savings anymore, but they taste much better, and you can customize the size. In addition to that a mint leaf or 2 in the summer, rolled into the cigarette is pretty tasty :^)

it's still significantly cheaper to roll your own. 1lb goes for ~ $4000 plus tubes runs about $55 delivered for at least 2 cartons. and yeah, they definitely taste better.

add 2 zeros to that price and you got some good weed

 

[I Saw OJ]

Originally Posted by John From Scranton View Post There's an awful lot of people I know getting sick, who don't even know the reason why.

You smoke. Problem solved. Next question!
I don't get it.
You know you are using a product that is going to change your life and eventually end it. Why so mad there is something in it that is ...bad? I am sure if you sat down and did extensive reasearch on each chemical in that cigarette you would be just as appalled by this new one.

That post pretty much sums it up for me.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
Buy loose tobacco/papers, and roll your own. There's no cost savings anymore, but they taste much better, and you can customize the size. In addition to that a mint leaf or 2 in the summer, rolled into the cigarette is pretty tasty :^)

This. I don't smoke, but my parents did start doing this while they smoked. In some areas, the cost savings has been negated by taxes, but at the very least you know what you are getting in your ciggs...

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: paulney
Cigars is where it's at. Switch from cigarettes - problem solved.

Dumbest suggestion to date.

Cigars and cigarettes are nothing alike. You don't inhale cigars and they don't infuse your body with an abundance of nicotine. You don't smoke cigars because you need your fix. You don't smoke cigarettes slowly over the course of an hour+.

Holy crap.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE

Originally posted by: minendo
I've been told that these fire-proof cigarettes are stamped with SS on the bottom of the pack. Is this true?

they actually have "FSC" on the barcode, if you look its there and obvious, very easy to tell if they are FSC or not... if there is no FSC they arent FSC... well atleast thats how indiana and IL do it i believe.

I'm in Kahleeforneeya and my Marlboros have the FSC next to the barcode.

http://www.tobaccofreekids.org...lease.php3?Display=869

I've seen nothing other than the OP's first link that mentions sodium silicate as the "new additive" but many places talk about "speed bumps" in the paper designed to slow/stop burning at regular intervals if the smoker doesn't continually draw on the cigarette. (I know mine go out all the dammed time if I don't)

There is no such thing as a "Safe Cigarette," no matter how it's marketed.

BTW, this is not about "junkies nodding off," cigarettes are one of the leading causes of fires in this country.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

What a bad habit to have. Not only are you killing yourself your paying someone to do it. Ive heard the argument "your gonna die anyways" and that is true. When I die though I won't be hooked up to a oxygen machine hacking my lungs out.

and so I drink to health while you kill yourself

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: OILFIELDTRASH
What a bad habit to have. Not only are you killing yourself your paying someone to do it. Ive heard the argument "your gonna die anyways" and that is true. When I die though I won't be hooked up to a oxygen machine hacking my lungs out.

and so I drink to health while you kill yourself

Liver Disease

Shut it.

Alcohol-related deaths top smoking-related deaths any day.

nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNotes/2006/810686.pdf

and that's just driving alone

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: OILFIELDTRASH
What a bad habit to have. Not only are you killing yourself your paying someone to do it. Ive heard the argument "your gonna die anyways" and that is true. When I die though I won't be hooked up to a oxygen machine hacking my lungs out.

and so I drink to health while you kill yourself

Liver Disease

Shut it.

Alcohol-related deaths top smoking-related deaths any day.

nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNotes/2006/810686.pdf

and that's just driving alone

Well thats all fine but I dont drink either.

So I drink to health while you kill yourself...