Fire Safe Cigarettes

I have been smoking for years and my health has been fine. When I first smoked and FSC's cigarette, I thought I had a stale pack, so I bought another pack. Same bad taste, constantly went out, and when relit, almost set my hair on fair the flame ignites so big. I am just livid about this new law, not to mention the fact that the law was passed without giving any type of warning or notification to consumers. In addition to the awful taste and experience from every single FSC that I smoke, my health has deteriorated in a progressive downward spiral (very quickly since I have started smoking these FSC cigarettes. I have been diagnosed with asthmatic bronchitis numerous times (never had this before FSC), I cough blood within hours of smoking these, and I constantly am coughing/hacking up chunks of disgusting stuff, never feeling like I get that lump like feeling out of my throat.

And now, just one week ago, my ankle swell 5 times the size of the other one, so bad I could not walk on it, started having sharp pains shoot down the back of my leg, and my ankle, on each side, was a deep red color. My toes, knees, and fingers were and still are bluish/purple in color, and a constant numbness/tingling feeling in my foot. I went to the health clinic at my school (I am a teacher), and the nurse practitioner immediately and urgently sent to me to the emergency room thinking it was a blood clot in my leg. After having numerous tests run, I was told I have acute osteo ankle althralgia, which is a symptom of an underlying disease or disorder. I now have to see a specialist to be tested for auto immune disorders, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, specifically. I have never had any of these issues before the FSC cigarettes. This needs to be addressed with force and urgency.

Fire Safe Cigarettes, not safe at all! I am medically retired from US Military service after suffering a broken neck. As a war veteran, I have earned my right to smoke as I please. It relieves the stress I've incurred fighting for this country! Not only can I not smoke anywhere in public anymore, not without being consulted by any government agency, or having been offered any alternative. I'm consuming even more harmful chemicals (and don't give me any ** about this garbage being okay to ingest). I've never had irregular heartbeats or have had shortness of breath before. Aside from my neck, I'm in peak physical health, or at least I was before FSC. Perhaps someone should look into the occurrences of COPD before and after FSC.

I have now suffered several burns to my face and inside my nose from re-lighting fire safe cigarettes, the falling embers have burned holes through my pants and into my thighs, holes on my brand new couch, carpet, tables, etc. Since the implementation of FSC, I cannot walk to the corner store without having shortness of breath and suffer more frequent headaches and fits of coughing, when before I could easily run 2 miles in under 11 minutes! I would like to know what almighty rights anyone has over me to secretly poison me with mandated chemicals without the slightest, oh, by the way, I'm 40, not 80 years old on oxygen therapy! There is no reason why I can't breathe. My grandparents enjoyed smoking all their lives and both died past the ages of 100 with no breathing problems!

I have never had so many burns in my life. I put a cigarette in the ash tray for a second, pick it up and the ashes fall all over you, most especially lodge under my rings and really burn before I can get them off. I've got holes in clothes and blankets. What, may I ask, is "safe" about this?

I live in Scotland,UK and have been suffering depression the past few months since the tobacco industry has decided to poison us quicker with this very dangerous chemical in our cigarettes under the guise of "Fire Safety". Lol, it's not funny though. I have just given them up due to this evil change in our tobacco products. If we put up with this nonsense from these ** who are daily cashing in on our misery, then it will be our own faults.

I put a cigarette out in the ash tray before leaving the house to run a quick errand. Upon returning home i opened the door to smell a very strong odor of wood burning. After searching the whole house, I opened the back door to discover that the"fire safe cigarettes" are in fact not what they claim to be. It did not put itself out Instead it burnt a hole thru the ash tray, caught a portion of the deck on fire and burnt a large part of the siding to the house. The package is clearly marked "fsc". Not the case at, we could have lost our home.

I have noticed a change in recent months. Now my cigarettes have a FSC printed above UBC. I have never smoked carpenter's glue basically till I unknowingly before I noticed the FSC was smoking cigs with it. How any human being would think that the properties of carpenter's glue are safe for any consumption is beyond me! I have now blisters from smoking it and a sore strange-feeling throat. I have stopped smoking them but the pain still remains.

How in the ** they justify poisoning people is unreal! I am beyond livid. These people have poisoned me through legislation legally. If you like smoking or not, do you like the fact of people putting carpenter's glue in people's products where they do not need to be and it has not even been tested for many years on rats? I am mad and I demand Justice!

I have noticed a change in recent months. Now my cigarettes have a FSC printed above UBC. I have never smoked carpenters glue basically until I unknowingly before I noticed the FSC was smoking cigs with it. How any human being would think that the properties of carpet glue is safe for any consumption is beyond me? I have now blisters from smoking it and sore strange feeling throat I have stopped smoking them but the pain still remains. How in the *** they justify poisoning people is unreal? I am beyond livid. These people have poisoned me through legislation legally. If you like smoking or not, do you like the fact of people putting carpet glue in people's products where they do not need to be and it has not even been tested for many years on rats? I am mad and I demand justice!

These fire safety cigarettes are terrible. Besides, the taste and the flu like symptoms I feel on a daily basis. The fire falls off the cigarette and has caused many burn holes in my seat of my truck, on the carpet and even on the wooden floor. These seem to be more of a hazard now that they have changed to the FSC. Please do something about this, before everyone gets sicker from smoking than they normally would and also before someone's house burns down because of the cherry falling off all the time.

I have smoked for YEARS and never burned a hole in anything. Recently, the fire fell off my "fire safe" cigarette and burned a hole in my car seat. It's just not worth it any more to smoke the hazardous things and risk burning carpet, car seats, etc. and endure more health hazards. I too have experienced weakness, stomach aches, and general lethargy since these cigarettes were forced upon us. I will quit. R. J. Reynolds should pay for my car seat repair. Burned a hole in my new car seat. Cost $100 to repair (and it does not look like new).

As I'm taking a drag, and the fire reaches a point on the cigarette, it falls off to the floor, or on my lap with fire still burning. Most times just ashes. I have cigarette burns on my carpet & some of my clothes. If you don't notice the fire had fallen off, you really could have a fire on your hands.

May I begin with, I am 44 years old and very aware of the health risks of smoking. However, I do believe it is my choice to do so. These new "Fire Safety Cigarettes" have caused more burns to my clothing,car interior and my skin, then the "untampered cigarettes." I do not smoke in my home so my house is safe. My major concern, vinyl ethylene. My God! As a consumer I feel I should have had a say in this decision to create FSC cigarettes. It is bad enough I'm inhaling smoke but must we add insult to injury by adding this chemical.

I was annoyed by the constant relighting of my cigarette, irritated by the difference in taste but, now I'm experiencing a constant bad taste in my mouth and headaches which has alerted me that something is wrong here. I do not wish to quit, but I am fearful about what this chemical could be doing. I won't entertain the "if you didn't smoke" subject with anyone, it is my choice. But, I do have a right to put a stop to a chemical, which I am inhaling, being placed in my product. Personally, the potential health issues to come will far outweigh the lives it is intended to save a year due to irresponsible smoking habits.

For the last several months or more my Mother and I have been very ill with similar problems. The list of problems is long: Coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, congestion, headaches, dizzyness, depression, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pains. nervousness and hives. My mother was recently hospitalized for a lung infection that will not go away. She is still under a Doctors care currently. The cause of our serious health problems is FSC (Fire Safe Cigarettes) manufactured by the Perpetrator. After doing some resarch on the issue I discovered that FSC are manufactured with ethylene vinyl acetate which is a hazardous material. Since stopping smoking FSC I am now feeling incredibly better by the day. Loss of work hours, physical and emotional damage from skin hives, depression and severe health consequences.

FSC or fire safe cigarette laws were passed state by state using deception and misinformation. FSC cigarettes greatly increase the health risks for smokers. Fires have actually increased for smokers in New York, the first state to pass the law.

I am 48 years old. I smoked for 30 years and never had any health-related issues until Fire Safe Cigarettes were introduced in Ohio. Two weeks after the Fire Safe Cigarettes were introduced, I began having flu-like symptoms. After a few months, my lungs would "burn" with every cigarette. I experienced numbness in my arms and hands and chest pains, and I generally felt old and sick.

I have now quit smoking for the first time. Within 1 day, the chest pain was gone. I still get arm weakness only during activity, but I am hoping that will soon be gone. I am now under a doctor's care. I know of 5 others who have quit since FSCs were introduced in Ohio. FSCs are bad news.

Since the state of Kentucky mandated the sale of the "fire safe cigarettes", I have encountered so many problems. I have smoked for 50 plus years, and never experienced burning problems. I've burnt my carpet in about six or seven places, my clothing, my furniture, my fingers, etc. The hot ash falls from the cigarette, even when you watch them. Sparks fly, just what is my state thinking. Is there anything that can be done about this? I know I could stop, but I'm nearly 74 years of age, and why would I stop now? Right now, I have a burn on my finger, and damages to my property. You do not dare walk through your home with one of these cigarettes.

Ever since Marlboro started making these "fire safety" cigarettes, I've had nothing but fire problems. On an average of at least two cigarettes from every pack, the hot ash falls out from the cigarette. I have burnt countless number of pants, skirts, pantyhose and the last straw was my husband's new truck seat fabric; a dime size hole right in the center of the seat, not to mention, the burn on the back of my left thigh. The estimated damage is in the sum of $500.00.

So how are these fire safe if the fire just falls off? Plus whatever they put in to make it so called fire safe makes you cough a lot when I have never had that happen to me before either. I do have a picture of the shirt, my neck, and my couch from the incident.

i smoke cigarettes.i just realized i was getting sick from smoking these fire safe cigs.how can the the government do this to their people. sore throat cough,and who knows what unreversable damage they are doing to me

these [are bad] and i will sue. they get me sick

My dad a 50 year smoker called me one day to say his cigarettes, (Marlboro Light 100's), kept going out, and tasted awful. So I e-mailed Phillip Morris asking "What's going on"?. I googled, 'Marlboros keep burning themselves out'. I was appalled at what I saw. Web sites, blogs, and forums abounded with smokers complaining about getting sick from smoking these FSC cigarettes.

Now I will have to start buying them online from companies in North Carolina, a state that still offers regular cigarettes that don't make me sick. After that I will buy them from Russia if I have too, or search out a black market, as I'm sure they will be popping up real soon.

Harvard School of medicine said that five compounds in the FSC cigarettes had increased in toxicity, but there was no evidence that these increases affect the already toxic nature of cigarette smoke.

First our government unjustly targets smokers with a huge tax burden of 500% the past ten to fifteen years, now there going to poison us.
Did I mention the taste? These FSC taste terrible, another factor Im reading from smokers across the country online. The amber or (cherry) at the end of the cigarette doesn't burn the same and allows too much air to mix with the smoke, and you can't get enough taste. So you end up drawing on them repeatedly trying to get a good full drag. You end up with uneven burning and ambers falling all over the place. Seems to me this is going to cause 'More Fire Hazard'. Also the constant relighting causes the paper to ignite into a real flame, and has even blown up in my face, and I only smoked a few packs of them.

New York States 2004 study claims nine lives were saved. Nation wide that would be 450 lives per year, less than the number of people a 'month' who die from tripping and falling down. But it's okay to make thousands of smokers nationwide sick. How many smokers a year will die now from the higher toxicity in the paper, only time will tell
If we allow these non smoking advocates to 'dictate' what we consume, were will it end?

There's still as many non smokers dying each year of lung cancer and heart disease as smokers, considering the high levels of pollution in our cities nationwide. Maybe next they'll blame smokers for that too.

New fire safe cigarettes ,need I say more?

My husband & I have been ill for 2months & didn't know why until I googled FSC.

My complaint is against the new government cigarette paper regulation. The new cigarette papers are supposed to snuff themselves out when the smoker stops puffing; however, when the cigarette is relit, a flame about one or two inches long flares out and burning tobacco and paper falls directly on the smoker. In the last two weeks, I have had large holes burned in two blouses, a pair of slacks, and the seat of my car. Based on my experiences with the new cigarette paper, I feel that FSC (Fire Safe Cigarettes) are anything but safe and are extremely hazardous.

Burns to chest, leg, and stomach; burn holes in clothing and car seat.