Do you enjoy smoking Carpet Glue?

[Riptides]

After lighting up are you experiencing more headaches, stomach cramps or a coppery taste in your mouth? Does your new FSC (fire-safe cigarette) taste bad, cause dry mouth and are you coughing more?

New York State was one of the first states to require that cigarettes be made with the new fire-safe paper. This paper is constructed by gluing two or three thin bands of less-porous paper together with an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion based adhesive (carpet glue).

Story Here.


Back around the beginning of December I stopped and bought a pack of cigs from a store that I usually don't stop at to get my cartons. My first thought was UGH this is a bad pack. They taste bad, are constantly going out, won't stay lit, and smell really really funny.


The next day the wife comes home with a carton from our usual store and I thought nothing else about it. Then a week later I stop to get another pack from a totally different store and lo and behold they tasted bad, wouldn't stay lit, and again, smelled funny.


I thought what the hell.. it's like these things were designed this way. It took me a few days of holding onto that 2nd pack and doing some googling when I stumbled across FSC (Fire Safe Cigarettes), which you've no doubt already seen the quote, maybe even read the story about, from above.

They're horrible and the state of Georgia, along with many others, has ushered them in along with the New Year and they're here to stay. Also as far as I can tell the FDA was never required to approve this new ingredient in Cigarettes even though our government has mandated them.

Still on the fence about quitting?

 

[warped911]

been around here for around 2 years now.. yea they sucked for awhile till i got use to them.. but now i couldnt care about them ;-)

 

[Djarum junker]

I think we noticed the damn things about 4 months ago
and I agree they taste awful - - - but really- - -
if you get right down to it
it's kinda like getting a chunk of cheese while your drinking a pint of sour milk...
it's just more gross in a pile of gross

We go down to Mexico quite a bit and have found they still haven't brought
this crap to our neighbors south of the border
I'm sure it's just a matter of time though

 

[Wild Clover]

Va started this, and boy, my customers at work are fussing. I had noticed my Misty 120's seemed to be smoking different...burning faster, and where in the past if I left one lit outside while I ran in to do something, half the time it had gone out and I still had most of a cigarette left...this is part of why I smoke 120mm. I had cut way back, due to the e-cigs, but it was noticeable. Lo and behold, they were fire safe! Someone has screwed up. My self extinguishing, easily "ducked" buts were now ever-lit and losing the 'cherry' with frequency. Since I was cutting so far back, I've bought some other brands because they were cheap and I still wasn't willing to be completely out of analogs... Marboros are now fire hazards. Constantly go out and won't re-light evenly, then lose bits and pieces everywhere...set my carpet in my car on fire (hard to change carts or bats while driving, so most of my actual smoking happens then), something I've never done without dropping an entire cigarette on the floor before. Pall Malls smoke about the same as ever, except the occasional ragged burn. I think someone had a bright idea and it is less healthy all around- neither healthwise nor fire safety. I wonder if carpet glue makes second hand smoke more or less healthy?

 

[Slighter]

Is there still saltpeter in the paper- used to maintain the burn? The contradiction would not surprise me in the least. FSbutts in IL for a while now

 

[Devin.Sean]

This is one of the biggest reasons ive quit smoking. i cant stand the FSC's. Embers fall off the damn things more often then any regular analog ive ever smoked. How is that fire safe? Ive burned my leg like 3 times & didnt know till it was to late, pants ruined. The taste i could've dealt with, it was bad but no worse then analogs already taste IMO.

 

[Bangers]

Not being able to rap a full verse while driving without my cherry going out was one of the last straws for me. My habits need to coincide with my rocking out.

 

[smokum]

its also a reason many have now turned to "indian" cigarettes....

-Greg

 

[ctourtelot]

We've had a rash of new customers coming in to try e-cigs specifically because of the FSC. I'm just glad we have an alternative for them!

 

[slybootz]

We've had a rash of new customers coming in to try e-cigs specifically because of the FSC. I'm just glad we have an alternative for them!

that's one of the reasons why i decided to give up cigarettes! when illinois started FSC a year or two ago, i hated the taste, as well as the dragging on FScigs. i would even drive to indiana to buy cigs until indiana enacted FSC laws. there were a couple of tobacco shops that i frequented that sold non-fsc cigs under the table, but it was too much of a hassle. glad i dont have to deal with this anymore!

 

[Devin.Sean]

that's one of the reasons why i decided to give up cigarettes! when illinois started FSC a year or two ago, i hated the taste, as well as the dragging on FScigs. i would even drive to indiana to buy cigs until indiana enacted FSC laws. there were a couple of tobacco shops that i frequented that sold non-fsc cigs under the table, but it was too much of a hassle. glad i dont have to deal with this anymore!

I completely understand that man, they just don't hit right! I was still gettin non-fsc for awhile but all my local shops (which is alot! I'm in tennessee) ran out and big tobacco isn't making them anymore now that all states have enacted the law.

 

[Steel]

You want to know the irony of the situation? Natural tobacco naturally doesn't burn or smolder very well. Watch a pipe smoker constantly stir and relight, or a cigar smoker that wasn't paying attention as his or her cigar went out. This was the same for cigarettes a long time ago, so the big tobacco companies ADDED CHEMICALS to the tobacco and paper so that a cigarette would not snuff itself out.

Then recently, some stupid government agency mandated that cigarettes go out on their own so as not to burn down houses. Easiest solution would be to remove the aforementioned burn chemicals... But they've been in the cigs for so long and change the flavor so much (try straight unprocessed tobacco sometime... and no, i'm sorry, but american spirits still have a lot of added s*** added to them) that they instead added MORE fire suppressant chemicals to counteract the burn promoting chemicals while doing the least to change the flavor we've all grown to love/hate.

Of course they're terrible for you, and only add to the list of horrid chemicals you inhale, but they don't care. And now 5 houses a year are saved! yay!

 

[iamjn]

... so the big tobacco companies ADDED CHEMICALS to the tobacco and paper so that a cigarette would not snuff itself out.

Say it ain't so! BT adding chemicals to tobacco? I just don't believe it!. /s

These started showing up in Michigan as well. I've heard several people complain about them. So glad I switched from analogs when I did.