[SheLion]

Typically, these fires are caused by people who fall asleep with lighted cigarettes in their hands. The cigarettes ignite bedding or upholstery.

People that "fall asleep in bed smoking" are usually drunk out of their minds or popped out on drugs. How are you going to enforce THAT, Guvnor????? Huh???

[SheLion]

The different paper does not change the toxicity of the cigarettes or reduce the risk of cancer and other diseases caused by smoking.

Awww Shucks! Your kidding me.

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[NetValue]

"The Legislature and Gov. George Pataki approved the law, the first of its kind in the United States and possibly the world, in 2000, and the Fire Prevention Bureau in Pataki's Department of State has been at work ever since figuring out how the statute will function and be enforced."

Here is proof politicians (even Republicans) are a-holes. For this to be a law is absurd!

God save me from those who want to protect me more and waste my money doing so.

[metesky]

If the tobacco companies just made their butts out of 100% tobacco they'd burn a lot slower like my fine internet bought Senecas.

[jimtorr]

Are these folks saying that only the paper on a ciggarete burns, and not the tobacco?

Huh, I guess that explains why pipe tobacco is so hard to keep lit. I guess cigars, which are wrapped in tobacco leaves, don't burn either.

[OBone]

Another useless unenforcable law.

[Just another Joe]

If I was a CEO of a tobacco company I would take this opportunity to stop selling cigarettes in New York state.
Let all the consumers know that it was the gov and and legislature that caused it.
I would probably tell the gov, "We are not changing this for you. If you don't want us to sell our product in your state just let us know."

Then sit back and watch the uproar.

[Great Dane]

Candles cause more fires than cigarettes....... are they going to demand safer candles

[Old Professer]

Philip Morris has been developing a slower-burning paper on its Merit brand, called SelectPaper, and has said in the past it would favor a national standard on safer cigarettes rather than a patchwork of state laws.

Just for the heck of it, I once lighted and stood on its end a Merit cigarette to watch it as it burned; it only took 8 minutes for it to burn down to the filter.

Merits are more air than tobacco.

[c-b 1]

The insanity goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on. Just when I think I've heard it all, here comes another nut case with more insanity.