‘Fire safe’ cigarettes
August 6th, 2008 by Ephemeris
By 2011 all cigarettes sold throughout the European Union will be only self-extinguishing “fire-safe” brands. The proposal was approved on 2007 by all Member States and it means that for all cigarettes there will be used fire-retardant paper. The objective is to cut down the number of fires caused by dropped cigarettes.
According to the commission spokesman Ton Van Lierop, the European Committee for Standardisation has been developing the norms to apply this decision, mandatory for the tabacco industry “by 2011 at the latest”. Such cigarettes are already on sale in Canada, Australia and parts of the United States, said Ton Van Lierop.
Posted in Environment, News
August 6th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Why not simply ban cigs?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Hi, Vladimir!
Trust me, nothing would make me happier. But the effect will be quite opposite - the forbidden fruit is a ‘must have’ for many people lacking a strong will.
I would propose (actually, I really intend to):
1. Higher health taxes for smokers (they endanger not only their health but others’ around them, too.
2. Public smoking banned - high fees for those that cannot help but poisoning the air that we breathe
and so on …
September 10th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
December 21st, 2009 at 8:07 am
If you ban cigarettes-then it only makes sense to ban alchohol too. People should have a right to do what they want to their bodies. Just a warning to my friends across the pond-
the tabacco is also filled with self-extinguishing chemicals. Read some blogs and petitions from the US. People are getting very sick. Many people will be quitting which is great, but some will not. Just because someone smokes does not mean they are “bad”. They are not polluting the air you breathe. Industry and selfish greed would come first.