Iowa Safer Cigarette Law Starts Jan. 1

December 30, 2008

  • December 30, 2008 at 1:43 am
    Ghost says:
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    “The tobacco in “fire-safe” cigarettes is wrapped with two or three thin bands of less-porous paper that helps extinguish itself.” I will be curious to see the lawsuits from the “less-porous” paper they are wrapped in when it is determined that the chemical used to make it “less-porous” is exposed. Yes, it does taste different. hmmm if the tobacco doesnt kill you the paper it is wrapped in will?

  • December 30, 2008 at 2:20 am
    Dickens says:
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    There’s an oxymoron here somewhere – making smoking safe?
    To Quote Scrooge, in observance of the holiday season, “If they are going to die let them do it soon and decrease the surplus population”

  • December 30, 2008 at 3:22 am
    Der? says:
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    Just another reason to sue the manufacturers for yet another health issue…

    How about we “stop smokin” – That’ll be a sure “fired” way to cut down on the fire danger !

  • December 30, 2008 at 4:02 am
    smokin joe says:
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    no WONDER my cigarette keeps going out when i put in the ashtray – yes i use an ashtray, not a couch, bed, rug or curtain- I wonder HOW MUCH TAX PAYER $$$$ went into this completely useless study and mandate of legislature –

  • December 30, 2008 at 4:14 am
    Jones Tater says:
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    So you have to inhale more frequently to keep it lit…great.

  • December 30, 2008 at 4:53 am
    Iowan Ex-Smoker says:
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    I love that our state legislature makes a law that “may” possibly save 10 lives, which is twice as many people as last year. What a great use of resources to legislate something so meaningless.

    How about caring about something that makes a difference to most Iowans’ lives, like the crappy highway system that we have?

  • December 31, 2008 at 8:52 am
    wudchuck says:
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    first of all, if i read correctly, they want fire-safe cigarettes sold. what happened to free business? why does the government get the right to state this is the only product you are allowed to sell? afterall, we all are going to pass away from some kind of element. now, if selling these cigarettes is going to save lives, then it needs to be a higher volume. sounds to me like you are trying to reduce revenue. sounds also, that if these cigarettes are harder to smoke, then they are going to twice as likely get more lung cancer? here’s what is funny – how many folks do you see on the highway that dump the ashes outside there vehicle and then drop the cigarette there as well. is that not considered littering? are folks afraid to put that in their own vehicle? now if that cigarette started a forest fire, we will never know.

    we need to get back to being personally responsible. stop making the manufacturers change their products because folks don’t read labels, use them for other reasons or even common sense usage. seatbelts are in vehicles and yet, in many states it is required to wear them. how many folks do you that don’t? we have speed limits on the highway and even the cops don’t follow them when they are just cruising. we keep putting legislature on the books for what? in today’s society we are in a recession, limiting choices to the consumer is not helping. it’s going to costs manufacturers more to comply with laws. laws need to viable for all and not just relieve the few. this includes those that are officials whether elected or appointed.

    business is a free choice of products being made to be safe. if consumers don’t use the product correctly or dispose of it correctly, this is not the manufacturers responsibility. this is not the congressional responsibility.

  • December 31, 2008 at 10:50 am
    reaper says:
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    Can you imagine if these liberal morons were around during the heyday of NASA. YOU CAN’T LAND ON THE MOON….YOU JUST MIGHT HURT SOME INTERGALATIC TOAD. JUST STOP THIS TALK OF SPACE TRAVEL.

    What a sign of things to come. Doesn’t socialism just look great?

  • January 4, 2009 at 2:18 am
    Wayne says:
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    I am a 32 year old heavy smoker living in Kentucky. I smoke approximately 2.5 packs a day. I was unaware of the implementation of FSC onto the market until one day I began to notice that my cigarettes had a strange stale taste to them, falling embers repeatedly burnt my fingers, I had to keep relighting them. Shortly after that I began experiencing the bitter side effects of chronic coughing, the taste of metal in my mouth, a building pressure in my chest, and eventually diagnosed with Thrush by the local ER staff. At this point I realized that I was not alone, as my entire family are all heavy smokers and we were all experiencing the same ill side effects. These events unfolded over the course of several weeks before I first heard the mention of FSC. My family and I heard that cigarettes in neighboring states had not been regulated by these new legislations, so we purchased cigarettes across state lines. Miraculously ALL of our side effects subsided. This is when I vowed to NEVER smoke another FSC. I will do whatever it takes to not subject myself to these additional poisons, and I strongly suggest that fellow smokers do the same. The Coalition for Fire Safe Cigarettes has attacked smokers as a society in an attempt to leave us with no other option. They have said that it is a new technology of banded paper, which will not harm us – even if no other chemicals were added this is at best a mistruth. What they neglected to mention was the increase in toxicity derived from the paper itself. Do not believe their lies, do not subject yourselves to these inadequately tested poisons and finally do not let them take away your voice. In the words of Helen Keller realize that you may only be one, but you are one and you can do something. Take a stand and do something to stop this insanity. Go here and make your voice heard http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/repeal-fire-safe-cigarette-laws



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