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
4 comments:
Jesus does'nt approve of inhaling precious cigarettes sir. Besides, wait until cartons are $50- dollars. You'll have to roll up your own cigs, and then maybe you'll be able to have/add your own chemicals of preference!
Sha-Sha!!!
MN just passed a law to require them. They had been trying for 20 years to get it passed and it went through. I'm just hoping it helps my girlfriend to quit. I did may 07 after going to Montreal and finding that marb menthol lights were $9/pack. I said screw that and quit cold turkey.
better stock up on ammo, too, chief. Shiva knows they're gonna tax the buhjeebus outta it, soon...
I don't smoke, and I didn't know about FSC's, but this really pisses me off. Have you seen the doc 'America: Freedom to Fascism'? Anyway, you're a nice enough guy, so when the shin hits the fat, you and your guns are welcome to my off-the-grid, self-sustainable compound on an obscure, gold-laden river in northern California...that is, as soon as we find someone willing to let their 10+ acre property go for actual market value!
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