Posted on 11/06/2009 3:28:40 PM PST by Murp
Please forgive the Vanity post but I have just become aware of FSC cigarettes. As a long time smoker my wife has allowed me to smoke in the computer room. For the last month or so she has griped about the smell that permeates our house when I smoke. She even asked if I had changed brands. I had noticed that my cigarette wouldn't stay lit, tasted different and that I had to fast puff it to keep it going. I have learned today by googling that these monstrositys are a result of states passing laws mandating them. My throat burns, my chest burns, and according to many threads on the internet I am not alone. I have read many articles that claim sodium silicate, asbestos, and glue bi-products have been added in order to achieve FSC status. It is my belief that the Smoke Facists are behind these new laws and everyone should be made aware of just exactly what it is we are smoking.
What’s a FSC Cigarette? That an acronym for something?
All true, the same problems and observations.
On the other hand, NH has added taxes to raise the carton price in excess of $50.
Isn’t that just great?
Do look into e-cigs. Not as good as the originals, but much cheaper, and usable everywhere.
Smoke free since 03/06/2003.
“Fire Safe Cigarettes”
Fire Safe Cigarette
Buy tobacco, roll yer own. It is the ONLY way to get around the crap they put into those cigs.
...so.....how can they be fire safe - I don’t get it....
Most states will be FSC by January and August 2010. I know NC and SC are still non FSC, also MO, some places still have non FSC. Yes, they are horrible.
Even if you think one has gone out, it may not have, and they get cherry bombs, that fall off, and burn holes in stuff, and they cause nosebleeds. They have double strips of paper at each third of the cigarette, that make it impossible to keep the cigarette going.
Also, a study at Johns Hopkins or someplace showed they were no safer at preventing fires than good old non FSC cig’s.
That’s cheap, Wisconsin is running in the upper $60. I stocked up when I was at Ft. Campbell for less than $35.
FSC= Fire Safety Compliant. States passed the FSC thing at the request of Insurance Companies.
http://www.aaronsmyo.com/
http://www.aaronsmyo.com/site/813741/product/64098
http://www.webbspot.com/
http://www.tobaccostation.com/Merchant2/cat/cigmach.html
I dont smoke anymore but in the early seventies when cigarettes were taxed and were 45 cents a pack we started using a Larado machine and making cigarettes. They were good and cheap and gave us something to do. they looked just like regular cigarettes. I cannot believe that people buy cigaretes rather than make them. I would never give the government that much tax for a cigarette
Smoke free since 19 September 1928. Beat you, didn’t I.
“States passed the FSC thing at the request of Insurance Companies.”
LOL. Geez.
I quit 01/26/2003
A major reason was the cost — nearing $90/month.
And I just got tired of smoking.
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Now, each year, I allow myself around $600 of ‘frivolous’ spending as my treat for quitting.
When I quit in the early 80's, I added my cig allowance to my rent and bought my first house.
Birth day?
As cigarettes are priced at insane levels, I have to believe it's economically viable to grow your own tobacco, even if you lived in a climate that needed a greenhouse or some other method to support growth.
With all the technology that's available to support pot growing, I'm surprised home tobacco growing has not borrowed the technology/methods. Is it legal to grow your own?
Thanks for the heads up Murp...I noticed the performance...but no symptoms of any other stuff...
I’m going electronic soon and then peter off..
There was supposed to be a vote today to stop the sale of Indian Tribe cigarettes over the internet, phone or by mail.
If it passed, you will no longer be able to buy the cheaper Indian reservation cigarettes!!!
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