Cigarettes going out ?

MungBean

Heard some members of my family complaining about cigarettes going out a lot lately and having to be relit.

So I did some investigation work and found out that cigarette companies are now legally obliged make fire safe cigarettes.

Done by including "speed bumps" to the paper during manufacture so that when a cigarette is laid down it will go out and not burn away and start a fire. The practice is to become enforceable later in the month so I assume they are standardising it in the last few weeks as the people I know have only recently noticed it.

Good for safety but the smokers I know are not too happy about relighting so often as relighting a gone out cigarette tastes horrible.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

MungBean wrote: »

Heard some members of my family complaining about cigarettes going out a lot lately and having to be relit.

So I did some investigation work and found out that cigarette companies are now legally obliged make fire safe cigarettes.

Done by including "speed bumps" to the paper during manufacture so that when a cigarette is laid down it will go out and not burn away and start a fire. The practice is to become enforceable later in the month so I assume they are standardising it in the last few weeks as the people I know have only recently noticed it.

Good for safety but the smokers I know are not too happy about relighting so often as relighting a gone out cigarette tastes horrible.

Yeah know those things will kill ya, right?:D

MungBean

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Yeah know those things will kill ya, right?:D

I dont smoke myself, I quit last new years eve. The only new years resolution I ever stuck to. But now there's less of a chance that someone else will kill me.

GLaDOS

MungBean wrote: »

Good for safety but the smokers I know are not too happy about relighting so often as relighting a gone out cigarette tastes horrible.

In fairness, cigarettes in general taste horrible...

jester77

MungBean wrote: »

Heard some members of my family complaining about cigarettes going out a lot lately and having to be relit.

So I did some investigation work and found out that cigarette companies are now legally obliged make fire safe cigarettes.

Done by including "speed bumps" to the paper during manufacture so that when a cigarette is laid down it will go out and not burn away and start a fire. The practice is to become enforceable later in the month so I assume they are standardising it in the last few weeks as the people I know have only recently noticed it.

Good for safety but the smokers I know are not too happy about relighting so often as relighting a gone out cigarette tastes horrible.

Guess they will have to smoke them faster to get over those speed bumps

mikom

MungBean wrote: »

Cigarettes going out ?

Well there's nothing on TV, so I'd hardly expect them to stay in.

Darkginger

Thanks for your research on this - we'd been noticing the same thing - it's good to know why.

jackie1974

I was wondering how they got them to go out, I thought it was a band of some kind of quenching liquid or something like that. I think Carrolls were the first to have it but most companies are implementing it now. I smoke a cigarette too fast to notice but have heard a lot of others giving out about it.

MungBean

ScienceNerd wrote: »

In fairness, cigarettes in general taste horrible...

True but you dont notice it as a smoker unless your relighting a butt. Which I'm ashamed to say I did many a time back in the day. Pokin through ashtrays for a butt with a drag or two left on it wont be remembered as a high point.

TheZohanS

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056406299

Conall Cernach

jester77 wrote: »

Guess they will have to smoke them faster to get over those speed bumps

Now a cynic would say that was the plan all along.

Kiera

No way, I thought it was something to do with my Spanish smokes.

MungBean

TheZohan wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056406299

See, checkin the smoking forum would have been the logical thing to do :pac:

El Weirdo

Rollies ftw.

They go out anyway. I can have a few drags, leave it down for 15 minutes and then go back to it.

GLaDOS

MungBean wrote: »

True but you dont notice it as a smoker unless your relighting a butt. Which I'm ashamed to say I did many a time back in the day. Pokin through ashtrays for a butt with a drag or two left on it wont be remembered as a high point.

Does it make much of a difference if you relight it straight away?

Another issue is for people who never have a light and have to borrow one for every cigarette, they'll have to do it a few times per smoke if they're no careful .

ejmaztec

MungBean wrote: »

See, checkin the smoking forum would have been the logical thing to do :pac:

The thick cloud of smoke makes it difficult to find.

MungBean

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Does it make much of a difference if you relight it straight away?

Another issue is for people who never have a light and have to borrow one for every cigarette, they'll have to do it a few times per smoke if they're no careful .

Could be a good opportunity to invest, lighter sales will sky rocket !!.

HLecter

Speed-bumps in cigarettes?

So does that mean if its a joint there will be ....potholes

thank you. thank you. :pac:

Wertz

Interesting.

Why didn't they just remove the salt petre that they blend with the tobbaco to make them burn faster?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_nitrate#Oxidizer

listermint

Its an obvious win for the cigarette manufacturers. Make them smoke faster because you have to, to keep it lit. Means more packets smoked because they are used up quicker....

Ellis Dee

I once saw a sign in the gent's toilet in a pub near Portlaoise. It read. "Please don't throw cigarette ends in the urinals as they become soggy and difficult to light.":):):)