If you have friends who still smoke analogs - or you still smoke analogs - you should know about EVA...
Here's the basics: In 2004 - The US Federal Government introduced the tobacco RIP initiative...
RIP was a cruel joke by legislators which stands for Reduced Ignition Propensity.
By 2010, it the law went into affect in 43 states, and Canada. At the end of this year (2011) the RIP tobacco legislature will be 100% enforced across North America...
The EU, given pressure to follow suit - has done so and 2011 adopted the E2187 standard fire safe cigarette across many of its territories... American and European made cigarettes carrying the FSC moniker emblazoned over ISBN are now being found all over Europe.
At present - These FSC Analogs are the only Analogs available in the USA, and are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in the EU...
So What does it mean?
The E2187 Standard Fire Safe Cigarette (reduced ignition propensity) uses EVA ( ethylene vinyl acetate ) to extinguish itself when not being puffed...
No new labeling, no new warnings, and the WORST tobacco additive in history is now mandated by law to be added to every single analog available...
So what is it? EVA is carpet glue.
The FDA admits (paraphrased):
It's stuff like that that makes me question what the heck is going on in these people's minds...
No studies, no labeling, no warning - "but we know it causes rashes, severe debilitating headaches, and tumors - but we want laws saying all smokers have to be exposed to it"
It sounds absurd, hard to believe - but it is fact - all cigarettes produced or available in America, and soon to be across the whole of the EU must be E2187 Standard Fire Safe Approved. ...and the E2187 standard is the EVA saturated papers...
Now, some independent studies have been done showing that ONE EVA cigarette contains as much particulate as an entire pack of non EVA smokes!
It is not tar, it is much worse... To understand it - imagine the heavy black smoke from burning glue - just a single drop of glue burnt on your kitchen table is enough to stain your walls and coat a whole room with a nasty yellowish black tary gunk...
So the next time a friend lights up an analog - grab their pack - look at the ISBN (bar code) where you'll find the letters (FSC) written, and then tell them what it means...
Start talking to smokers, and you'll hear the story over and over - "Yeah, last year I started getting these really bad headaches and a nasty dry cough"
That's the wonders of EVA! Analogs, now mandated by law to be coated in Carpet Glue before sale...
Yet another reason to switch to vapor!
Here's the basics: In 2004 - The US Federal Government introduced the tobacco RIP initiative...
RIP was a cruel joke by legislators which stands for Reduced Ignition Propensity.
By 2010, it the law went into affect in 43 states, and Canada. At the end of this year (2011) the RIP tobacco legislature will be 100% enforced across North America...
The EU, given pressure to follow suit - has done so and 2011 adopted the E2187 standard fire safe cigarette across many of its territories... American and European made cigarettes carrying the FSC moniker emblazoned over ISBN are now being found all over Europe.
At present - These FSC Analogs are the only Analogs available in the USA, and are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in the EU...
So What does it mean?
The E2187 Standard Fire Safe Cigarette (reduced ignition propensity) uses EVA ( ethylene vinyl acetate ) to extinguish itself when not being puffed...
No new labeling, no new warnings, and the WORST tobacco additive in history is now mandated by law to be added to every single analog available...
So what is it? EVA is carpet glue.
The FDA admits (paraphrased):
"The health risks associated with the combustion and inhalation of EVA are entirely unknown - however, we do know that: itchy rash, sever allergic reaction, severe headache, vomiting, ........, mouth sores, and nose bleeds are all associated with EVA exposure ...and we also know that in controlled studies, it caused aggressive tumor growth in rats. Nonetheless we support its use as a mandatory additive to ALL combustible tobacco products worldwide."
What?
It's stuff like that that makes me question what the heck is going on in these people's minds...
No studies, no labeling, no warning - "but we know it causes rashes, severe debilitating headaches, and tumors - but we want laws saying all smokers have to be exposed to it"
It sounds absurd, hard to believe - but it is fact - all cigarettes produced or available in America, and soon to be across the whole of the EU must be E2187 Standard Fire Safe Approved. ...and the E2187 standard is the EVA saturated papers...
Now, some independent studies have been done showing that ONE EVA cigarette contains as much particulate as an entire pack of non EVA smokes!
It is not tar, it is much worse... To understand it - imagine the heavy black smoke from burning glue - just a single drop of glue burnt on your kitchen table is enough to stain your walls and coat a whole room with a nasty yellowish black tary gunk...
So the next time a friend lights up an analog - grab their pack - look at the ISBN (bar code) where you'll find the letters (FSC) written, and then tell them what it means...
Start talking to smokers, and you'll hear the story over and over - "Yeah, last year I started getting these really bad headaches and a nasty dry cough"
That's the wonders of EVA! Analogs, now mandated by law to be coated in Carpet Glue before sale...
Yet another reason to switch to vapor!
