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This is why when I occasionally smoke, I prefer smoking small cigars. Its dried wrapped leaves. It will decompose fast and (to my knowledge) is not doped with c
by mpsprd 3y ago
This is why when I occasionally smoke, I prefer smoking small cigars.
Its dried wrapped leaves. It will decompose fast and (to my knowledge)
is not doped with combustion regulators; they will extinguish pretty fast
if left alone, whereas a cigarette will cleanly burn all the way.
Another perk is how expensive they are compared to cigarettes, it's a natural counter to nicotine addiction.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago> whereas a cigarette will cleanly burn all the way. This may be region/regulation dependent, if you've noticed that. I don't smoke that often, but IIRC my cigarettes (in France) would extinguish after a while, without consuming themselves.
- Scoundreller 3y agoCanada has a regulation for a self extinguishing requirement. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/smoking-tobacco/regulating-tobacco-vaping/reduced-ignition-propensity-cigarettes.html https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/smoking-toba...
- whycome 3y agoSo is this done by adding something to encourage it to extinguish? Or by taking away what was previously there that let it keep burning?
- psychphysic 3y agoYou clearly need to go back to Smokey's fire safety class. Remember the fire triangle! There's only one thing you can easily change for a ciggy
- rvnx 3y agoWell, there's also another way, you could add much more smoke. If no oxygen, no fire, right :D ?
- rvnx 3y agoIt's known under the name FSC and explained here for each region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-safe_cigarette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-safe_cigarette
- worik 3y ago> So is this done by adding something to encourage it to extinguish? Or by taking away what was previously there that let it keep burning Taking it away Hand rolled cigarettes go out. You can, or used to be able to, buy cigarette papers that do not go out. Made by tobacco company ("Drum")
- seadan83 3y agoAre you sure? Afaik it is an additive to keep the cigarette alight. American spirits are missing that and will go put (as does pot and most any other dried plant)
- edgyquant 3y agoThis is the case in the US as well, or at least in the parts of it I’ve lived (Washington, Illinois.) This wasn’t true when I was a kid though, it’s a recent regulation.
- lp0_on_fire 3y agoIt was the early 2000s IIRC. New York was one of the first (if not the first) states in the Union to introduce the requirement. At the time Vermont did not have the requirement so we used to drive over there to buy our smokes. The only thing on the packaging that indicated the difference was a little black bar above the UPC on the packs sold in New York (at least for the brand I bought).
- jochem9 3y agoAfaik an EU regulation to prevent house fires (people who fall asleep with a burning cigarette). I think it changed somewhere around 2010.
- ompogUe 3y agoUsed to smoke American Spirit, which claimed to be "100% additive free". They would go out is not puffed on, which I always assumed was because there wasn't saltpeter &etc. in the mix
- kdmccormick 3y agoThey taste and smell better too.