Obviously none of you are smokers. These fire safe cigs are far from being safe. Yes, they go out when not smoking, but not always and when you relight them they flame up. The cherry falls out creating burns on items like car seats, which is real fire safe. They also have a slight different taste which makes me wonder what extra toxins are in them trying to make them "fire safe".

Let's not overlook that cancer sticks are the number one cause of heart disease.

In areas where smoking is banned, the incidence of heart attacks drops dramatically.

And to add to garyprimer's comment: What about safe-sex cigerettes for those who smoke while bopping!!!

You don't even want to know how many people I have known in my life that lived to be 70-80-90 that ate steak eggs bacon potatoes etc etc etc and smoked between 1 and 3 packs a day of filtered and non filtered cigarettes. Only to be killed by something other than cancer. cancer is not a fact of smoking. Cancer is an increased risk.

Most cases of cancer are linked to cigarettes as soon as that person is known to be a smoker. Prior to cigarettes how many people were diagnosed with cancer?

Lets not look at the asbestos, coal miners, mill workers or any other profession dealing with fine particles as a cause of said cancer. Since nearly everyone smoked 30-60 years ago because hollywood made it Kool.

Its not an issue of them being concerned about the increased health risk they have made their choice. its about the possibility of these cigarettes increasing their health risks. Making those mandating these laws accountable, if there is a greater risk being caused due to the increased exposure of a longer burning time.

You're reading too far into my comment. Whether or not a slower burning cigarette causes cancer is a moot point. Cigarettes cause cancer period. If someone is truly concerned about the health risk the only option is to quit altogether. As far as freedom of choice, you are completely free to roll your own and make them burn as fast as you want.

So your saying death to all smokers because they choose not to quit? Lets possibly give them a cigarette that could give them cancer faster because they smoke that fire-safe ciagarette longer.

Those fire-safe cigarettes are already in use in certain areas btw. They are not going out faster they just cease to burn after about 10-15 seconds. Most smokers are not sucking them down til they are gone. They have conversations, they have a drink, then they come back to it.

Relighting it is a minor annoyance and they will learn to keep it lit. At the cost of their own health since they might not smoke the whole cigarette. Simply amounts to them smoking more then they already do.

IF you want a fire safe cigarette, make them burn faster. It greatly increases the amount they would have to smoke greatly increasing the profits and tax collections. Forcing the larger issue of it being too costly to continue, which is what everyone here is trying to force upon them.

So much for our freedom of choice.

Watching the frustrated smokers constantly relighting their cigs will probably be quite entertaining. As far as being concerned about the effects on their health... That's kinda like shooting yourself with a non-toxic bullet. The end result is the same.

With all of Beloit's problems, doesn't Robson have more to worry about?

We are free to choose weather or not we smoke. Taxes have been imposed greatly increasing the cost of smoking. View it as a deterance if you like, its to offset the costs civil projects like healthcare, roads, schools, stadiums, there are a million things taxes are imposed on to cover costs completely unrelated to that item.

Smokers will not cease to smoke their cigarettes for fear of the health risks, they pay more for insurance and are fully aware of their choice in that matter.

The concern is the changes your trying to make to the product that could increase those risks to those that choose to smoke. If its found that a smoker gets more tar, nicotine and everything put into them from these fire-safe cigarettes since their habit of smoking an entire cigarette has not changed. Then your at fault for prematurely forcing that changed product upon those consumers and not educating them ont he increased risks you are fighting to impose upon them.

Overall your having the smoker inhale more of that cigarette since its slower burning.

How about fire-safe condoms?

I'm not sure if nemesis is for or against these?
I'm not sure about "safe sex" condoms but regular condoms protect against sex and disease. It's not 100% but better than unprotected sex. These "fire safe" cigarettes are designed to extinguish if not smoked for a certain amount of time so that people don't burn down their surroundings if they forget about it or might prevent a fire following someone being careless about where they flick their cigarettes when done with them. It's better than having lit cigarettes in a passed out drunk's bed or couch or worse tossed out a car window into a dry patch of plants or trees. Hopefully, if smoker's are concerned about heir lungs being harmed more than cigarettes already are, they can exercise some self-control and continue not to smoke an entire cigarette.

Fire safe cigarettes?
That is about as effective as safe sex condoms.
Fire safe cigarettes would do nothing for cigars or pipe smokers.
Once again this is the government trying to be all things to all people.

dont we have better things to worry about

How the heck do you light a "fire safe" cigarette......

fire-safe cigarettes will lead to an increased health risk for smokers. Most smokers don't smoke all of their cigarette, they take a puff and let it burn a bit. Unless they suck the whole thing down most only smoke half or two thirds of the cigarette.

I think the effects of these fire-safe cigarettes should have a lot of testing done on them to ensure its not creating a greater risk for smokers. Since most smokers will smoke an entire cigarette before they are done.

Does that mean there will not be a smoking ban? If they go out when they are not smoked that would create less smoke right?