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so why do my fire safe cigarettes taste bad………………..??

Chris Crawley — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:57:09 +0000

Scroll through this blog and you will find plenty of entries from smokers complaining about the bad taste and ill effects now their favorite brand has been converted to be fire safe compliant (FSC.)

Why is this……?

Mostly it’s because the fundamental burn characteristics of your favorite smokes have been changed by the addition of FSC or LIP paper. It’s not because something bad has been added. FSC or LIP paper has bands printed on it making the paper’s porosity lower. The lower porosity bands (or zones) make the cigarettte burn slower and if it’s not puffed – it can go out.

Making the cigarette burn slower alters the taste in some cases quite significantly.

Your favorite smokes taste worse because most States and all of Canada now require FSC cigarettes.

LIP competition heats up!

Chris Crawley — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:45:07 +0000

Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. announced that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit recently in the United States District Court against Astra Tobacco Corporation, Delfort Group and German groups Julius Glatz, GmbH, and LIPtec, GmbH, over alleged infringement of their US patent number 6,725,867 for low ignition propensity cigarette paper.

Astra Tobacco is the sales and marketing company for Delfort group in the US.

Glatz GmbH has also recently launched a LIP paper after considerable speculation they were developing a LIP paper.

SWM apparently intends to defend its LIP intellectual property in the courts if necessary. It will be interesting to see if their patents are robust enough to withstand close scrutiny.

comments welcome………………..

It may be Fire Safe Compliant – but does it taste good?

Chris Crawley — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:14:04 +0000

In an attempt to prevent fires from unattended lit cigarettes various governments are requiring FSC cigarettes. 49 of the 50 US States require it or have already passed legislation that will. Lone stand-out is Wyoming (population 10) but this is only a matter of time. Canada required it several years go, Australia and South Africa will soon and the EU.

Look through this blog and you will see many complaints about the taste of FSC cigarettes. It would be interesting to know what Brands?

Many consumers dislike the taste and believe something noxious has been added to deter smokers- not true.

What has changed is the burn characteristics of the cigarette and when you do this the taste changes.

As FSC regulations come on board many Manufacturers are 100% migrating to FSC product to avoid shipping the wrong product into a FSC State and avoid the heavy fines associated with this error.

So what’s your experience? Tell us what Brands you’re smoking and if they taste good or bad??

Feedback welcome.