Talk:Cigarette
What about the different kinds of cigarettes and packs, like hard pack, soft pack, 100's, menthols, etc? Urbster1 05:14, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone write about Eclipse, Accord and Star Tobacco? These are so-called "safer cigarettes."
- http://www.eclipse.rjrt.com/
- http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/
- http://www.starscientific.com/
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/anat_text.html
Smoking increases the metabolic rate? Really? I have never heard of someone loosing weight by taking up smoking, although the converse is of course very true: I myself went from W31 to W34 after quitting smoking, and had to replace all my pants. Mkweise
- I have known people who've lost weight by taking up smoking, not that I'd advise it.
Aren't Djarum only a brand of clove cigarettes? I didn't think they make plain tobacco cigs. Matt gies 18:18, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- They don't, but the article is about cigarettes, not plain tobacco cigarettes. (BTW, the only brand on the list that's made from only tobacco, without additional flavorings, is American Spirit.) Mkweise 19:27, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- It's pretty much impossible to find a cigarette that doesn't have additives (American Spirit and Winston claim not to have additives, but I have heard it alleged that although their tobacco is unadulterated, they simply move all the nasty chemicals to the paper wrapper instead). But even still, everything else on the list is a tobacco cigarette, adulterated or not. Whereas most people conceive of clove cigs as a different genre entirely. I would restrict the list to tobacco. Matt gies 19:37, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Clove cigarettes have tobacco in them, the clove is only a flavoring added to the cigarette. I should know, I have a package of Djarum Black sitting in front of me!
This page could use a bit of polishing... User:Teen_smoker_guy
Cigarettes effect on drivers
1. One guy was blowing smoke out the window as he rear ended another car at a red light. Not very fast, but good enough to be funny. 2. A pretty girl flicked a butt out the window just as a cop rolled up alongside. The butt bounced across the cops hood, and then its roof lights went on. Duh! 3. A trucker driving a dump truck which had dual fuel tanks under the cab doors. The driver flicked the butt STRAIGHT DOWN, BOUNCING IT OFF THE TANK. For about 1/25 of a second, my clutch hand fought my brain, and the brain won. The truck was obviously burning diesel, I thought, and diesel will actually put out a fire under normal atmospheric conditions. And even if it were gasoline I doubted the truck would have caught light. Still, it was an exciting 1/25 of a second. Better yet... is when you're riding your motorcycle you get a red hot butt in your:
1) face (for all you 3/4ths out there) 2) jacket 3) crotch
i've always wanted to pick up the butt and throw it back in the window of the perpetrator, but typically i just freak out and toss it away (not into other motorcyclists, mind you...)
Since both car drivers and cigarette smokers are engaging in singularly dumb-ass activities, I don't find it so surprising that their dumb-assedness not so infrequently crosses the boundary between domains and becomes a kind of interdisciplinary dumb-assery. Sure, it's a pain, but what do you expect from anyone selfish enough to poison the planet or dumb enough to poison themselves?
- Note: the above testimonials come from an Everything2 node on the subject of "cigarette butt-throwing dumb-ass drivers". —No-One Jones 05:15, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Dumbass?
The only dumbass I see is the one who has nothing better to do but call nicotine addicts dumbasses. I guess you don't believe in civil rights; it's my civil right to smoke cigarettes, whether the smoke is going to kill me or not, it's my choice, not the government's. I toss cigarettes out the window as often as possible just to piss liberals like you off. The day it becomes a crime to smoke (which I do see in the future in this "free" country we call America), I'm moving to Mexico. People like you hate freedom, you want to take away as much of it as you possibly can..
Consider this me blowing smoke in your face, and tossing a butt on your front lawn.
--Ddhix 2002 14:33, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Yeah, blowing smoke in one's face and tossing a butt on one's front lawn, thus restricing one's right to clean air and a litter free garden. I guess you don't believe in civil rights. --Thomas 18:48, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
PS (from Wikipedia's "Liberalism" article) "The word "liberal" derives from the Latin "liber" ("free") and liberals of all stripes tend to see themselves as friends of freedom...". You seem to be a little misinformed in your choice of words.
UK cigarette packaging
Can someone find a better picture of some UK cigarette packaging. The example on the main page looks like it was picked up off the ground - which is where you see most of those things anyway in the UK.
Junk science
This is ridiculous. Wikipedia doesn't call things "junk science". Stop adding your own opinion to the article. Also re: Howrealisreal's edit summary, how in the world would one prove that something "is not factual"? The burden is on you to properly attribute POV phrases. It's not my burden to prove that the tobacco industry's science is or is not "junk science". Original argument like that is beyond the scope of Wikipedia. Rhobite 19:45, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)