Snails - Response on Threads Part 3

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TomCatt

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Interesting info:

Fire safe cigarette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In 2000 Philip Morris introduce the 'fire-safe' Merit cigarette, with two thicker paper bands to slow the burning. Later that year, the company received hundreds of complaints alleging that long, partly burned tobacco was falling off the tips of lit Merit cigarettes, burning skin and flammable items. An in-house scientist (Michael Lee Watkins) analyzed the data and concluded Merit to actually be a greater fire risk than conventional cigarettes. In early 2002 Watkins was fired, and Merit continued to be marketed. For concealing information about the fire hazard, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Philip Morris.[30][31] In October 2007, R. J. Reynolds tobacco Company (RJR) said that by the end of 2009 it would only be selling FSCs in the United States.[32][not in citation given]
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I vaguely recall something like this happening as I was smoking Merits then - nothing catastrophic, just small 'coals' dropping off my ciggies.


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There's a meme going around social media at the moment, instructing you to go to Google (not Bing. Never Bing.) and type in your birthday like so: "Died on 18 October 1980." The first Wikipedia result is the person you were in a past life. I, for example, was Hans Ehard, the German lawyer who prosecuted Hitler in 1924.

I was Charlie Chaplin's half-brother :blink:
 
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