Fire Safe Analogs?

[jennydotz]

Sorry if this is in the wrong place (not exactly e-cig news. . .), but the cashier at the Sheetz was teling me that all analogs would be "fire-safe" and packs marked with FSC by maybe April. She said many brands were FSC already and that they totally suck. Found a post here on the subject:

Introduction and a question.

What is up with this? Not that too many members are interested in analogs anymore here. I feel like the last one to know anything, did everyone else know about this? What are they adding to make them flame retardant or whatever? I heard no news. Is this about the dumbest thing you've ever heard?

[Chrisjsy]

News to me! Sounds interesting though. More info @ www .firesafecigarettes. org looking into it myself now but it doesnt sound like they go down all too well (sorry about the link, need 15 posts apparently.

[TropicalBob]

Yep, this has been discussed at great length. Don't have links but do a forum search on fire-safe cigarettes. No one likes 'em. They're being phased in state by state.

[xMarlboroMan]

Iowa went fire safe January 1st, 2009. And they sucked! Although I never dissected one, it appears there are bands of heavier paper about a 1/4" wide inside that when burned actually start to extinguish the burning. If you don't take a drag when it hits one of these spots, it is *supposed* to burn out. The taste like crap and I swear it was harder to inhale... I could not have found out about ecigs any sooner! Perfect timing for me.

L8r, x

[JJames68]

yes, cigarette companies have been required to add a harmful carpet glue stuff to the paper that cause it to be what some call fire proof... was why I switched to the e-cig

funny there is less talk about puffing on carpet glue then pg - wonder what kinda testing was done on that before being forced on the people?

[Programmer]

Iowa went fire safe January 1st, 2009.

Hiya, fellow Iowan here. Just last weekend I heard about that and went out and bought some Camel Wides _just_ to see what this FSC was all about. (Didn't smoke them!) But I don't think they were FSC because there was absolutely no visual difference.

Here in Iowa are they required to be marked in any particular way? I don't want to waste another $5 on more old non-FSC stock.

[OutWest]

so called fire-safe cigs are supposed to have FSC printed above the barcode. My state has had 'em for a few months now and as a two pack a day smoker i've only had about a half-dozen of them actually go out on their own. So, "fire-safe" is a HUGE misnomer. Also worth mentioning that there was a pretty large grassfire in my state recently that was attributed to cigarettes (a few months after the mandatory "fire safe" bit).

In my opinion theyre going to cause more harm than good. People will think theyre safe to leave burning, safe to throw out on dry grass on a windy day, etc., when in fact theyre not. Not to mention the increased damage to health from the crap theyre putting in them.

[Programmer]

Thanks for the info. I took another look at that pack. Nothing near the barcode, but printed on the bottom of the pack is indeed "FSC L8". (Edit: Not printed as the rest of the pack is as shown in the below photo, just a cheap dot matrix job.) Ok, safe bet they are fire safe then.

Cut open one of the cigs, emptied out the tobacco, and held the paper up to the light. No bands at all from what I can see. RJR must be using a different method for the camels (or the Wides in particular).

I'd smoke one to see if it goes out, but naaaaah. When I smoke analogs they are handmade. Won't catch me putting these in my mouth, especially FSC.

[Tallulah]

January 1 2008 here in Illinois. They do indeed self-extinguish after a few minutes (which is the entire point) but for me, they taste bad and smell awful, and that's a large part of the reason I started looking into e-cigs last year - that, and the ever-increasing cost of a pack here in Chicago. As of April 1, with the federal increase in taxes, a pack of analogs will cost me $9.50 at my corner store.

This is what you'll see on a pack of fire safe cigarettes:

[VapinAbby]

I'm in Texas and the FSC have been out for a while. It does change the flavor. Before I switched to ecigs I could swear they were also making me sick to my stomach, and I have smoked for long time without that effect.