Firestarter

If you're a smoker, and you've noticed that your cigarettes suddenly started tasting funny and burning strangely; that your chest feels tighter than normal and maybe you've been getting sick more often, then you my friend have probably been recently, and more importantly, UNKNOWINGLY inhaling "FSC's", or "Fire Safe Cigarettes".

I just signed an online petition here with this to say:

"Cancer is one thing, but I'd like a warning shot if there's a possibility of any chemicals in your new FSC's causing something like, oh, I don't know, my future children to be born with their lungs on the outside of their bodies.

Way to be upfront.

Fascists."

Apparently, there's quite a bit of corporate misdirection (No!) regarding exactly how these cigarettes extinguish themselves. There's also a shitload of people complaining about newly acquired upper respiratory problems.

From Citizens Against Fire Safe Cigarettes:

"If you read the Petition against fire safe cigarettes, there is a reference that the Harvard School of Health tested Regular and FSC cigarettes from Marlboro Light. The test results were different and showed significantly more chemicals : 13.9% more Naphthalene (a pesticide) and 11.4% more carbon monoxide. These are the top two, there are 3 or 4 more that showed moderate increase. If all Tobacco Companies are only using different paper and speed bumps, why where there significant increases in chemicals? Because they added more chemicals to the FSC cigarette. Every smoker I have talked to who has used FSC say they can TASTE A CHEMICAL. The FSC standard (The NFPA calls them Fire Safe Cigarettes, State legislators call it typically Fire Standards Compliant), calls the Cigarette Company to only meet the physical performance spec. How they do it is not concern to the State!!! The PA HB1612 makes no mention of NOT using more harmful chemicals, just meet the performance spec, no full burn, and speed bumps. This means that Cigarette companies may use whatever means they want to make the cigarettes go out, including increasing harmful chemicals to the toxic level; levels that cause severe problems."

So,I dunno...I love smoking. I unfortunately truly enjoy it. And I fucking hate these cigarettes for the same reasons millions of other smokers seem to. But that's not really what's important. What's important is that The United States Government chose to, A) consciously add even more highly toxic chemicals to a highly taxed national product WITHOUT ANY TESTING, and B) that they did so WITHOUT A FUCKING PEEP to the public.

I don't know about you, but that's just one more reason to keep buying guns and wait for the Eventual Collapse.



"Fucking fascists." -Walter Sobchek

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But a friend of mine and I got to talking about the mighty Van Halen last week, and I got all nostalgic and downloaded "5150" from Demonoid. I still haven't listened to it. As stupid as it sounds, I feel like I might be disrespecting the Rock Gods if I go ahead and give it a spin. I'll also feel like a sellout. And a douche. Douche by proxy.

Maybe one time wouldn't hurt. Just don't tell anybody.