Posted on 01/23/2005 9:06:41 AM PST by LouAvul
California lawmakers will consider requiring that only "fire-safe" cigarettes designed to extinguish when left in ashtrays or dropped onto bedroom mattresses can be sold in the state.
Legislation to be unveiled Monday comes nearly seven months after implementation of a similar standard in New York.
The goal is to save lives and property destroyed by fires ignited by cigarette butts that are carelessly or accidentally discarded.
"Pretty soon, it's going to sweep the country," predicted Steve Blackledge, legislative director for the California Public Interest Group. "It's common sense and it's safer for consumers."
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More regulation... and yes, that's typical for the Liberal pseudomoralists.
California...the laughable state.
In point of fact, cigarette makers add chemicals to their products in order to keep them burning, and their addicts don't seem to mind or care what they consume.
Why don't they just make Mein Kampf required reading in the third grade. Also don't forget to put some history about Joe Stalin in along with it. God Bless America and I wish these people would wake up!
Why don't they just ban cigarettes, alcohol, cars, bigmacs, bacon, beef, pork, industry in general, new housing developments, ...etc. and have it just be done with it.
Is this really true (that they would need fire retardants) ? I don't know. I don't smoke cigarettes, but my cigars will go out if they are not occasionally puffed. (But I'm pretty sure they could still cause a fire is carelessly placed.)
ML/NJ
Managed to quit smoking almost 2 years ago.Don`t care if someone else does,just happy now that I do not.
one for your puff list
Maybe matches should come sealed in cans of water!
I had this great plan to fill Bic lighters with bovine methane, guess I can forget that one, now!
I thought they already had those. They were called unlit.
"...cigarette makers add chemicals to their products in order to keep them burning..."
Correct, this is why cigars and pipes need re--lighting and cigarettes never do. Nat Sherman cigarettes were always free of these chemicals and would go out if not puffed.
We live in NJ so we've gotten some of these NY exstinguishing cigarettes. I'm not sure they'd really prevent a mattress from catching on fire, but they DO go out on you. As a long time smoker I will say there is no difference in taste, etc. to them. I think this is probably a pretty good law.
Matches will be next!
Nothing unsual about that, these same geniuses have been demanding that guns be fire-safe for decades.
This is a great idea. Think of the lives it will save. One life saved is worth the effort - right? The next thing they should do is make gasoline so that it is not flammable. Think of the lives that will be saved in car crashes. And make water so that it is not wet - think of all those drowning victims that would be alive today.
Since the California legislature adopted an official policy to allow the mentally deficient to serve indefinitely, all my transcendental problems have been solved:
I use fewer cigarettes to get to sleep.
I became familiar up close and personal with the classic political concept of government insolvency.
I was able to demonstrate unequivocally that behind the light switch plate, there is no unlimited reserve supply of electricity inside the walls of my house.
Funding parades and workshops for perverts, deviants and criminals have made California a satiated state. A satiated state is a happy state. Just like the California cows... but let's not go there.
California roads and highways have developed potholes to such an extent that heavy traffic today is known as the hydrocarbon rhumba.
This has forced innovation and technical superiority. The suspensions in California cars are the toughest in the world. Technical excellence is the ticket. The new designs have been successfully tested on the space shuttle.
If enough people don't use a useless state service, the obvious problem and solution is to raise taxes and create a new advertising campaign, double ticket prices and pass a new law that makes it a crime not to participate.
The teacher-student ratio has a finite limit, in spite of what Mr. McLaurin states: a ratio of 1:5 in classrooms has not worked. The teachers keep bumping into each other, and the student is still a drolling moron.
Seventeen committees have been funded to understand why it hasn't had the expected improvement. The most popular recommendation to date is to increase the ratio to 6 teachers per student.
We don't have enough outreachreach programs. The rape and mayhem apprentice program is foundering. Since those social lapses have been downgraded to minor misdemeanors, there are not enough mentors in prison to satisfy the outreach interest. The state may have to start importing mentors.
I could go on and on, but one gets the drift. The most important investment any taxpayer can make is in his government. It's his civic duty.
Remember, a State is only as good as the amount of taxes it can pay.
If you are able to stop right there, I admire your mental health.
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