Not to go all Ron Paul or anything, but the fire-safety cigarette makes me kinda hate government

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

There has been a state-by-state movement of outlawing regular cigarettes, requiring that only "fire-safety" cigarettes can be sold.

Fire-safety cigarettes self-extinguish at a few fixed points if you are not actively smoking them.

This effect is accomplished by gluing two or three thin bands of less-porous paper together with an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion based adhesive (carpet glue).

It is said that smoking an ethylene vinyl acetate is no worse than smoking tobacco.

Of course it is not well determined that smoking an ethylene vinyl acetate is no worse than smoking tobacco... it is, however, said.

There are no long-term human tests of smoking this stuff, for instance. Why would there be? Cigarettes do not have to meet FDA standards of being safe to ingest because they are an exception and are obviously not safe to ingest.

So new cigarettes additives are not tested for their safety. It sucks that Phillip Morris puts ammonia compounds in tobacco to make nicotine bind to cells faster. And it sucks that they can do that because hey... cigarettes are already unsafe.

But this is the Government adding some random shit to cigarettes... not Phillip Morris, the government.



Yes, smoking is stupid and bad.

But that doesn't mean smokers deserve to be additionally poisoned.

Few people are going to quit specifically because they are forced to take some ethylene vinyl acetate with their tobacco. In fact, most smokers will not even know. So folks will just suck down this whatever-it-is because they are addicted.


On the plus side, clove cigarettes can no longer be sold.