Smokers are fuming about the taste of fire-safe
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Bill Peterson has been smoking Marlboro Reds for ten years, and during those years he truly enjoyed his smokes. But now, he has trouble getting used to the flavor of his favorite Marlboros. He says that the cigarettes now have a metal taste and make his tongue and throat itch.
“It has a different taste, and I don’t like that taste,” the 31-year-old accountant complained. “It tastes like a cheaper brand of poor quality.” A tobacco store manager who is now accustomed to such complaints told Peterson what was the problem.
So, Peterson found out that he was puffing on fire-safe cigarettes. Spreading across the country with a booming speed, the FSC are made to self-extinguish when are left burning and not used.
The principal aim is to prevent the ignitions that cause thousands of deadly residential fires annually because smokers forget to extinguish cigarettes or drop them on furniture or bedding.
Fire prevention groups struggled with tobacco companies for many years to demand the manufacture of fire-safe cigarettes in place of conventional ones, before the tobacco industry finally gave up.
So, with almost no bustle, all American states, excluding Wyoming, approved legislations demanding tobacco shops to sell fire-safe cigarettes only.
However, at the same time with the spread of FSC, many smokers started complaining about the bad taste of the new cigarettes. They have even launched an online site, collecting signatures to abolish fire-safe cigarette. Approximately 7.500 people have signed this petition.
Thousands smokers from different states wrote to tobacco companies that the new cigarettes cause cough, nausea, headaches, sore throat, and other adverse effects.
According to a research by Harvard Public Health Department, accomplished in 2005, fire-safe cigarettes contain up to 11 percent more carbon dioxide than traditional cigarettes. The FSC as well contained an increased amount of several additives that was not significant.
However, Philip Morris spokesman claimed that they had not put any chemicals in the fire-safe cigarettes.
The fire-safe cigarettes differ from conventional cigarettes only in the design of paper used to wrap tobacco. Fire-safe cigarettes contain two or three layers of less porous paper which contributes to self-extinguishing.
Philip Morris expects complete phasing out of traditional cigarettes by the first quarter of 2010, while major rival .J. Reynolds would stop the manufacture of traditional cigarettes even sooner.
However, as smoking rates keep falling, deaths in fires caused by tobacco products had been reduced significantly even before the FSC came to the market. According to statistics, in 1985, almost 2,000 people passed away in fires caused by smoking materials. In 2005, 800 deaths were registered.
When New York approved fire-safe cigarettes, becoming the first American state to do it, the number of cigarette-caused fires dropped dramatically: in 2003 there were 38 deadly residential fires across New York and only 24 fatal fires happened in 2007. So, looking on the example of New York, many states easily approved similar legislations.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Just how much damage have they done, and what is yet to come ?
Why am I getting so upset, when all that it probably is, just a little bit of harmless, governmentally dispensed, genocide. Hmmmmmm… You know what, it’s probably, just to be certain, we don’t injure ourselves, right ?
You wanna know what else ? They’ve got it covered all the way around. If, you should fall over dead while consuming this super poisoned contraption and it creates a house fire, killing the rest of your family, you will be able to take solace . No one will ever blame it on your habit because, you were, indeed, using fire standard compliant smokes . Finally, the most ironic part of it all will be when, the fire investigator’s report concludes that, you simply just fell asleep, during a house fire, of a new, mysterious and unknown origin.
But seriously, if you don’t want to die many, many more times sooner than before, then you should do just as I did and vow to never smoke another FSC (fire standard compliant cigarette) . Alternatively though, I will,(especially now) continue to smoke tobacco in any form until it has been made entirely illegal . Also, if things don’t change by that time, I will have considered this nation unfit for habitation by freedom loving individuals such as myself.
These new and much more effecient, liver killing, death sticks had me sick for 6 months ! I had no Idea what was causing it until January, 1, 2010. I almost died ! I already had a liver condition . Thanks for the “heads up” “big brother”.
But wait, theres even more ! Do you feel a lump in your throat ? Is your chest on fire ? Having palpitations, overly accelerated pulse rate, insomnia, anxiety and/or mental depression ? Pulmonary edema , severe weakness, headaches, dizziness, kidney problems ? Are you having any symptoms of central nervous system depression, confusion, hoarseness, an inability to sleep in a horizontal posistion,and much , much more ?
When you get sick and you visit your Dr. he or she may have trouble diagnosing your condition . If so, just ask to be checked for ethylene vinyl acetate (carpet glue) and napthalene (moth ball) poisoning . Also, (this is important) don’t forget to mention that you have been burning and inhaling it at, what are apparently, toxic levels !
I would like to thank nanny government and all of the great many social engineers who are working so hard on my behalf . Now , instead of taking up to what could have been decades to kill myself, I can use the new and improved, fsc death stick, and potentialy, do the job in as little as a matter of months.
But seriously, smoker’s will now start to drop like flies, and you know what they will have to say , “Now you know, as we have already told you, smoking is very dangerous”. I have been a smoker for 30 years and have never had any symtoms other than an occasional cough until, the stealthy introduction of the fsc’s.
46 million, demonized and bullied US.citizens, may not seem to be that big of a percentage compared to the rest population but, 46 million people can completely blow the (always closed) doors from this crooked government and the rest of it’s perverted, twisted , greedy, narcissistic, social engineers ! 46 million voters can create a heck of a large swing vote . If we will all speak together our voice will be, overwhelmingly loud. Let our voice not, go unheard ! Once again, let freedom ring !
Call , write or e-mail your state and federal representaives and don’t forget to register and VOTE !
In case you haven’t already done so, don’t forget to sign and if you wish, leave a comment on the rather large and fast growing petition at,
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/repeal-fire-safe-cigarette-laws
Just in case, you are still a skeptical anti-smoker and don’t believe any of this, then I dare you, (with your heart) to just read a few pages of the comments made. A lot of these unwitting victims of this atrocity will undoubtedly now have to suffer for life.
Wouldn’t you expect to have been advised If the toxicity of your favorite medications , make-up or food additives you have come to depend upon, been increased, substantialy ?
Self destruction is human nature. You choose your vehicle, I will choose mine .
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