Quit Smoking / Smoking: What Are Fire-Safe Cigarettes?
Fire safe cigarettes are the cigarettes which are self-extinguished when left unattended. Fire safe cigarattes are safe as they prevent fire accidents caused by cigarettes to a great extent.
How Do Fire Safe Cigarettes Work?
Fire Safe cigarettes contain rings at different spots around the cigarettes, which act as speed bumps to the cigarette flame. These rings around the cigarettes have low permeability material. If the burning end of the cigarette reaches the rings and the smoker does not continue smoking, the cigarette is extinguished. Hence, if a smoker leaves the cigarette unattended for few minutes, the cigarettes is automatically put off preventing fire accident.
Certain measures such as public education, improving the standard of materials of furniture and mattresses have conrolled fire accidents caused due to cigarettes. However, every year about 700 to 1000 people die in fires triggered by cigarettes. Fire safe cigarettes are less likely to cause fires as they snuff themselves out in few minutes.
A cigarette carelessly tossed away without putting out can start a fire. Fire safe cigarettes prevent such accidents. Even though smokers feel fire safe cigarettes have to re-lighted every few minutes, they can surely lessen the number of preventable fire accidents
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May 30th, 2009 at 3:16 am
I’ve been smoking 30 years. I live in Arizona where we just started getting Fire Safe Cigarettes.
For three weeks I was constantly getting ill, and having never heard
of fire safe cigs, had no idea why.I immediatly noticed my cigs (Marlboro reds) kept going out, not in a few minutes, more like every 30 seconds, Very Very annoying.
My dad a 50 year smoker called me one day to say his cigarettes, (Marlboro Light 100’s), kept going out.So I e-mailed Phillip Morris asking “What’s going on?”. Before I received a response, I googled, ‘Marlboros keep burning themselves out’. I was appalled at what I saw. Web sites,blogs,and forums abounded with smokers complaining about getting sick from smoking these FSC cigarettes.
I couldn’t believe our government would force a product on it’s citizens that were making smokers across the country sick. Didn’t anyone bother too do some research on the health impact of these new ’safer’ (not) cigarettes.
I immediately went to my vendor, and after searching there inventory found and bought five cartons of regular not FSC cigarettes, (labeled above the bar code). Within two days of smoking regular Marlboro’s my illnesses subsided, and after a week I felt like my old self again.
Now i’ll have to start buying them online from company’s in North Carolina that still offer regular cigarettes that don’t make me sick. After that i’ll buy them from Russia if I have too, or search out a black market, as I’m sure they will be popping up real soon.
Fire prevention agencies claim it will save 700 to 1,000 lives per year.New York Department of State did a study in New York state, a state which has mandated FSC for four years now,and found that deaths did drop from 31 deaths to 22 deaths in 2004.
Harvard Scool of medicine said that five compounds in the FSC cigarettes had increased in toxicity, but there was no evidence that these increases affect the already toxic nature of cigarette smoke.
OH REALLY, then why am I finding smokers all over the internet nationwide complaining they’re getting sick?, I know they made me sick.
Those entities that are pushing this garbage on us didn’t even have the courtesy to tell us smokers what they were doing.
These ’speed bump rings’ that are incorporated into the paper has increased amounts of a glue produced by dupont, used to adhere carpet, and is very toxic, (Adhesive ethylene vinyl acetate).
First our government unjustly targets smokers with a huge tax burden of 500% the past ten to fifteen years,now there going to poison us.
Did I mention the taste? These RSC taste terrible, another factor i’m reading from smokers across the country online.The amber or (cherry) at the end of the cigarette doesn’t burn the same and allows to much air to mix with the smoke,and you can’t get enough taste. So you end up drawing on them repeatedly trying to get a good full drag,and you end up with uneven burning and ambers falling all over the place. Seems to me this is going to cause ‘More Fire Hazard’. Also the constant relighting causes the paper to ignite into a real flame, and has even blown up in my face.And I only smoked a few packs of them.
New York States 2004 study claims nine lives were saved. Nation wide that would be 450 lives per year, less than the number of people a ‘month’ who die from tripping and falling down. But it’s okay to make thousands of smokers nationwide sick.How many smokers a year will die now from the higher toxicity in the paper,time will tell..
If we allow these non smoking advocates to ‘dictate’ what we consume, were will it end?
There’s still as many non smokers dying each year of lung cancer and heart disease as smokers,considering the high levels of pollution in our cities nationwide. Maybe next they’ll blame smokers for that too.
James Whitehorne Phoenix Az. May 29, 2009
jmjmyj7@hotmail.com
June 7th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I keep repeating this, but there is a store in my town, not sure about Arizona, but you can get around this by buying tobacco from a tobacco shop and getting an inexpensive tube injector and a box of tubes. The tobacco which is the store brand has no additives and they had a comparison, you can tell the difference.
June 13th, 2009 at 12:42 am
I live in a low income section of the Bronx in NYC and I have never come across such a cigarette. I wonder why?
June 27th, 2009 at 2:44 am
These cigarettes are horrible and I know they are more harmful then the old stye cigarettes.These cigarettes give me a sore throat and i have had chest pains from them. I hope the goverment takes a long look at what they are doing to us smokers. If they are going to tax the hell out of the industry, atleast they can try to force a healthier cigarette, not a more harmful one.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Whatever!! It’s NUTS! Is nice to know why i’ve been feeling ill! They tell us when they raise the taxes,but not when they put stuff in what we pay more for!!! We are getting a chemical that WE DON’T WANT-AND PAYING MORE FOR IT!!!
What else do they have control of??
SMOKERS HAVE RIGHTS TOO!!
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Is the government now giving us a reason for a future class action lawsuit against THEM? Oh wait, that won’t work because we will soon be filing bankruptcy as a nation! This disgust me. I didn’t know why the last two days my cig kept going out. My son just told me about the new cig and showed me on my pack the FSC on the side of carton. I wonder if that’s why I woke up sick this morning with allergies of itchy eyes, watery eyes, chest congestion and sneezing. All of which I’ve never had in the past 42 years! I will have to go to Dr. with the all new national health care plan and wait days to see a Dr. and get meds!!!
This is OUR country let’s take it back people!!! Vote them OUT:)
August 12th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Fsc made my girlfriend and my self sick , she’s had terrible head ackes and I’ve had a soar throat for ,3 ducking weeks now, I just found out today why my cigarettes keep going out, so I bought camels there not to bad , watch marlboro switch it back when they can’t give a pack away, fuck em, fuck em all
August 27th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I just found out that all cig companys will be required to switch to these fsc. My husband smokes and he has compained about them non-stop. He has also been experiencing headaches and chest pain. I don’t smoke myself but the way I see it….people don’t normally take drag after drag..they take a drag, a few moments more they take another….I’ve only seen people puff away like crazy when they have only a few minutes to smoke….so a lot of the cig just burns up….now people will be having to drag on the cig constantly to keep it lit…isn’t that doubling the amount of smoking? What do I know, I’ve never tried it but i have watched. It seem the gov. will be killing folks faster with these new cig.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I know what ya’ll are saying. My cough increased as I noticed earlier this year with the cigs going out if I was not continuously inhaling. The taste is terrible. Like the person in the Bronx mentioned that they do not have those type of cigs in their neighborhood stores, I too, noticed this when I went to a military base and had him buy me a carton. It was almost like heaven to this smoker to have cigs that did not have the FSC on the pack. I could taste the tabacco once more, ie., no bad taste, and for a week, at least, my cough was almost nonexistant. But, as all good things come to an end, so did that carton and as soon as I returned to the cigs I could buy around here, East Texas, so did my cough return. If we get to Lousiana again, I will be getting more cigs from the base!