demigraff wrote:Umm ... firesafe? I've not come across the idea before, but it sounds kind of demented. How can something whose purpose is to burn be "firesafe"?
I hope our government doesn't try to discourage smokers ... last time I looked at the stats, taxes on smokers were almost paying for the NHS.
I had never heard of the damn things before either as I had been rolling my own cigarettes for some time but every now and then would buy a pack of pre-rolled cigarettes. So one time I bought a pack and it was really nasty tasting. I just thought I had gotten a really stale pack or something. Next pack was the same way. I smoke cigarettes very slowly and I had to keep relighting the cigarettes over and over and they tasted like shit and made my lungs hurt. So I started asking around and found out they were now fucking up all the cigarettes on purpose.
I think it is a federal law that only applied in states that adopted it. So far so many states have adopted it that the usa cigarette manufacturers have stopped making regular cigarettes cause it is no longer profitable to make both kinds. If you want to read more about it do a search for "firesafe cigarettes".
What pissed me off even more is that they put all those godamn labels on there to try to scare people, telling them that smoking cigarettes will make thier kids born deformed, give them cancer, make their dick fall off, etc etc. but they didn't bother putting anything on the label to let people know they were intentionally poisoning cigarettes with ethylene vinyl acetate.
You should be perfectly safe. As far as I know it only affects cigarettes sold in the usa. I know of no other country stupid enough to pass a law requiring that all cigarettes sold in the country be poisoned. Though I would expect it will kill the cigarette export business in the usa.
I think the way the law reads it says that only those kind can be sold by retailers so I suspect foreign made cigarettes are going to become unavailable, unless they start poisoning those too. Maybe there is an exception for those made outside the country. I don't know. And since they don't label them I sure don't want to pay $8 to buy a pack to find out by smoking them. Try asking a clerk at the store and all you get is a dumb look. Most of the bastards are too ignorant to do anything but swipe a bar code past a scanner. They couldn't even make change if the damn machine didn't tell them how much change to give. Well, at least there is a bunch that will never have to listen to a file to make them dumb. Or dumb and horny for that matter. They all seem to be pretty damn good at breeding as well.
Regards.
Sarnoga.