A Rare Criticism of Fire-Safe Cigarettes

[PaulB]

Rebecca Brooks: Fire Safe Cigarette Laws: More Harm than Good

Not directly relevant to this forum, but I do like seeing this particular sacred cow getting skewered!

 

[Mac]

This is a great find! I hear it everyday. These new fsc cigs make me sick. It's carpet glue! The hypocrisy of the anti's knows no limit.

 

[Devilooman]

These are what drove me to the web to look for e-cigs! They are awful and made me sooo sick I just knew I had to get away from smoking!

 

[martha1014]

I went through a period of different medical treatment that when I smoked I would drop cigarettes. I had cigarette burns on carpet and had so many on my couch I had to get a new one. Since then I quit dropping cigarettes but now I occasionally drop an ecig. I have never had a fire. The cigarette would just burn out or just burn a hole. I have never understood how a cigarette could cause a house fire. Maybe it was the material in the carpet or couch that prevented the fire.

 

[VictoryNotVengence]

I thank them for making those FSC. If they hadn't I would have never learned about the ecig. now i'm 100 days and 2500 analogs off them.

 

[pianoguy]

I thank them for making those FSC. If they hadn't I would have never learned about the ecig. now i'm 100 days and 2500 analogs off them.

That may be true for me as well. In the year that FSC's were mandated here before I discovered the e-cig, I had begun to develop symptoms like a persistent cough and congestion, and increased frequency of migraine headaches. Sure, 40 years of smoking is bound to cause problems, but I don't think it is a coincidence that these symptoms started up out of the blue. Once I put the analogs down and started vaping, they all disappeared, including the headaches. Leave it up to the government to implement nanny-state regulations that harm the masses in an attempt to protect a handful of .......