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Cigarettes
This category is for questions and answers about cigarettes. Information in this category can range from the pricing of modern and vintage cigarettes to their side effects and fatality statistics.
4,008 Questions
What is the chemical in FSC cigarettes?
Here is NFPA's answer:
More and more states are passing fire-safe cigarette legislation (22 to date). The Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes, organized by National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), is calling for manufacturers to produce and market only cigarettes that adhere to an established fire safety performance standard, and is working to see that this standard is required in every state in the country.
A fire-safe cigarette has a reduced propensity to burn when left unattended. The most common fire-safe technology used by cigarette manufacturers is to wrap cigarettes with two or three thin bands of less-porous paper that act as "speed bumps" to slow down a burning cigarette. If a fire-safe cigarette is left unattended, the burning tobacco will reach one of these speed bumps and self-extinguish. There is no evidence that reduced ignition propensity cigarettes are any more harmful to health.
You can read more about the "myths vs. realities" about fire-safe cigarettes on our Web site.
The new fire-safe paper. This paper is constructed by gluing two or three thin bands of less-porous paper together with an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion based adhesive(carpet glue).
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Are the new FSC fire-safe cigarettes making smokers sicker than ever?
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There is plenty of evidence that FSC cigarettes are more harmful to your health. NFPA coordinated The Coalition for Fire Safe Cigarettes.
FSC or fire safe cigarette laws were passed state by state using deception and misinformation. Fires have actually increased for smokers in New York, the first state to pass the law.
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How many box of cigarettes are in a carton?
The number of cigars in a box is reliant upon the size of the cigar and the box : an average of twenty per box .
Are electric cigarettes bad for you?
It would be unusual for an e cigarette to cause vomiting, however, different people have different chemical sensitivities or allergies, so it would certainly be possible. However, any person who can smoke a regular, tobacco cigarette without vomiting would be able to inhale nicotine from an e cigarette without vomiting. And if you don't smoke tobacco, there really is no need to use e cigarettes either. The e cigarette is just a device to help people to overcome cigarette addiction. If you just inhale nicotine, that is a lot safer than inhaling smoke, with the tar, carbon monoxide, and other toxins that it contains in addition to nicotine.
How much are Newport cigarettes in florida?
i smoke winston. which is non pertaining to this. BUT newports being the more expensive cigarette that i have noticed. expect to pay 6.25 for a pack possibly slightly more or less depending on the stores prices. not over 7 for sure!!
What is the average cost of packs of cigarettes a month?
That varies, the average pack of cigarettes is about $6.50. If you multiply that by 30 days for 1 month you get $195. That's a lot of money to contribute to your own death
Can vampires die if they smoke cigarettes?
Different vampires employ different modes of smoking. Some don't even smoke at all. Usually it depends on what kind of person the vampire was before he died. They simply maintain their old habits.
Vapor cigarettes are too new to be aware of any harmful effects that they may have on people.
How old do you have to be to buy cigarettes in Puerto Rico?
You have to be 18 to buy cigarettes, drink and gamble at the Bahamas.
What are five ingredients in a cigarette?
nicotine tar carbon monoxide tobacco Hydrogen cyanide ammonia
Can you get a disease from smoking someone else cigarette?
Aside from the chemical toxins I doubt that here would be a greater risk of communicable diseases being transmitted this way, as a matter of fact the risk of disease is probably somewhat lower as the chemicals in cigarette smoke also contain disinfectants.
What is the active ingredient in cigarette smoke?
There is no active ingredient. There are approximately 600 ingredients in cigarettes. When burned, they create more than 4,000 chemicals.
What is in cigarettes that can kill you?
(arcinic,stric-9,cyinyde,)
tobacco leaves are processed in vats where chemicals are added
then the tobacco is dried and packaged.
Do you mean arsenic, strychnine and cyanide?
Arsenious pesticides were commonly used on many crops, including tobacco, but their use has been banned for decades. Arsenic occurs naturally and is absorbed by all plants (and domestic water supplies) from the environment.
Strychnine is an allelochemical produced by the strychnos genus of plants, of an entirely different family to the tobacco plant. It is used as a pesticide and rodenticide but its use is severely restricted to below-ground.
Cyanide is produced naturally by over 1,000 plant species, but not by the tobacco plant. It is present in apricots, peaches, apples, raspberries, many nuts in particular almonds, and vegetables, such as corn, butter beans and spinach.
The permitted levels of arsenic and cyanide in foods and domestic drinking water are substantially higher than those found in tobacco.
Many foods are processed in vats and chemicals added!
How do menthol cigarettes work?
They put menthol in the filter. Rip the tobaco of a menthol cigarete and draw clean air through a clean menthol cigarete filter and it wil be mentholated air.
No they don't. The tabocco itself is menthol. I smoke menthol tobacco and I use normal filters, not menthol filters, which I don't even know if you can buy.
Rub Vick's Vapor Rub on the filter, and it will kinda taste like a menthol.
your both right it depends on the brand. alot of camels use menthol in the filter and they have to put alot to oer compensate for the menthol not being in the tobacco like crushes. camel silver menthols have both they have menthol in the tobacco and a ball you can crush in the filter to make it more menthol. as for making a cig taste like menthol ive heard people say tooth paste but it does not work it cloggs the filter. havent tryed anything else.
What is a recessed filter on a cigarette?
To reduce the amount of tar going into the smoker's body.
However, cellulose acetate (the material used to make them) and carbon particles breathed in from cigarette filters are thought to cause lung damage.
What was the price of cigarettes in 1959?
i dont know about 1957 but in 1970s they were .50 a pack so the 50s they had to be about 20 0r 30 cents
Where is the fuse for a cigarette lighter in a 2004 GMC sierra?
The fuse is located in the fuse box under the hood on the driver side. There will be a black box near the windshield with a black finger box. Remove the bolt and lift the lid. There will be a diagram of the fuse placement. Replace with a 20 amp fuse.
How do you eliminate cigarette smoke odor in house?
Cut an apple in half, then place the half apple skin side down in a cupholder, close windows and the apple half will soak up the smell of cigarettes by morning. Toss apple half....Try it, it REALLY WORKS!
What chemicals are in fire safe cigarettes?
there are lots of harmful chemicals in them such as carbon monoxide ammonia which is the same stuff that is in window cleaner .
Ammonia is produced naturally by the human body and is essential as a building block for making proteins and other complex molecules. It is also used as a food additive, as are the vast majority of the chemicals listed as additives to tobacco. Ammonia also occurs naturally in some foods, such as peanut butter and cheese.
Carbon Monoxide is a by-product of the combustion of any carboniferous substance - coal, oil, gasoline, domestic gas, candles, incense sticks, BBQs, log fires, food!, etc. It too is produced naturally by the human body and has been shown to be a neurotransmitter. Along with nitric oxide and hydrogen sulphide (other 'nasties' in tobacco smoke?), carbon monoxide is also known to act as an anti-infammatory, vasodilator and promoter of neovascular growth. Clinical trials of small amounts of carbon monoxide as a drug are on-going.
ALL chemicals, including water and oxygen, are harmful, even lethal, in the appropriate dose. And, as the above examples demonstate, the opposite also applies.
Whether the levels of these chemicals in tobacco and tobacco smoke are harmful, harmless or even beneficial is subject to interpretation. As a SCIENTIST, smoking is not a good idea yet the dangers of tobacco smoke are grossly exaggerated.
What substances do cigarettes contain that are harmful to the developing child?
Well it has been estimated that a single cigarette contains approximately 8000 different chemicals, from which most still remain unknown. While nicotine on it's own is not "harmful" it's the main cause of addiction- along with conditioning. Now among the other chemicals it has been estimated that at least 80 of them are carcinogens, and since we are talking about a child, every single cigarette contributes in the child's abnormal development and could potentially cause a variety of chronic, non-chronic, and permanent diseases and disabilities.
Quitting is the most uplifting thing you can do for your body, mind and soul, along with those living around you.
When it comes to children I think every detail and ingredient is dangerous.
After a dental filling when can you smoke cigarettes?
There is no problem with smoking after having fillings done on your teeth. Except that long term effects of smoking will darken those fillings if they are white, and smoking in general is very bad for your health.
Does cigarette have chocolate in it?
no
The first person answered no, but cigarettes do have chocolate in them. Tobacco companies are now required by FDA to disclose all ingredients in tobacco and chocolate was one of them as well as cocoa. The tobacco companies that disclosed this information was LM, Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds and American tobacco company. There are a lot of ingredients in a cigarette that is questionable. Rum for instance, rosemary oil, lemon oil. I worry more about the rat poison and carbon monoxide and whatever para-methoxyphenyl is.
well a "joint" without a filter works in the way when you set the end of on fire and inhale, it takes just the tobacco/weed that you are burning at the time and that turns into vapor (as any think you set on fire would) and it travels from the whole part of the paper to your mouth, lungs,etc....with a filter the vapor just goes through all the filter to filter out some of the cancer causing chemicals...
The reason why the filter is brown/tan when you get done with the cigarette is not because of the chemicals being filtered, its actually from the resin from the tobacco/weed being traveled through the whole cigarette
What was the price of cigarettes in 2000?
I got the following from this site: http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History20-1.html There is a reference to "combined ten cent brands" so I'm guessing that a pack cost from 10 ~ 12 cents overall. * 1940: BUSINESS: MARKET SHARE BY BRAND: * 1. Camel (RJR) (24%) * 2. Lucky Strike (ATC) (22.6%) * 3. Chesterfield (18%) * -- Combined 10 cent brands (12%)
