I'm a chain-smoker. I use montecristo cigar. This is and has been ranked as one of the finest cigars Habanos has to offer. You need some time for this piramide as it has a long burn but oh the pleasure and flavor. Savor with a good single malt. I find the cut really helps with the draw. Just a great smoke! thanx!! @LINDA:)

We know how hard it is to quit smoking, so lets make it more dangerous to their health!

In addition, smokers usually own up to their fuck-ups. If some dumbass burns down his house while knowing he shouldnt smoke in bed- it isnt like he has a case against anyone but his own dumbass self. You dont hear of smokers trying to sue cigarette companies when they get lung cancer, because MOST people understand the risk (even if it is exaggerated).

What will they do next? Make cars that dont run so they can avoid car accidents? What fucking moron came up with the self extinguishing shit anyway? Shoot that person please!?

I am pissed off that every time I try to get a drag off my cig, I have to light it again! I am sick of the unreasonable regulation being placed on smokers by this asshole government and the bunch of liberal twats that believe every piece of garbage that the liberal organizations put out there- for instance, THE REAL TEST RESULTS REGARDING SECOND HAND SMOKE, instead of the scare tactic propaganda that their beloved crooks tend to issue.

Every flame retardant substance that I have known of in my life is toxic. As if we dont already take a risk by smoking period, and some of us just CANNOT quit smoking even if we wanted to. The self extinguishing paper is just one more bullshit regulation they have put on us to satisfy their power trip. Non-smokers, you wouldnt understand so fuck off! Why do you waste your time conversing with us nasty evil smokers anyway?

As for outlawing smoking in bars, they might as well outlaw drinking too then. Both are sold legally, so how are drinkers more privileged than smokers? Probably because the govt makes millions off drunks annually. Not that they dont make the same from smokers when 90% of the cost of smoking is tax.

I already wish this country would have a revolution, take away my smokes and see what happens! Liberals are some fucking major hypocrites! They wanna legalize pot and other drugs, while telling smokers they arent welcome. Fuck off!

Look people!! If the government was really interested in your health, they would force the auto companies to put into production all the non polluting cars they have plans for already, (such as the bio fuel cars GM has been producing for Brazil since the 80's) they would force the coal burning power plants to install the filters that have been in existence since the early 90's that eliminate 95% of all toxic deadly emissions including mercury, they would halt all imports of products especially food, from China until their rivers (which are mostly brown in color, and not from mud), which are used for irrigation of crops and manufactering, are free of leads and other toxic chemicals.

I smoke, I like to smoke, I am VERY healthy. Non-smokers get off my back unless you are ready to pick up the tab for all the taxes we smokers are paying. If you want us to quit, then let YOUR taxes increase and the taxes of all smokers that quit stay the same.

SEC's are here because of people just out there looking for another reason to get on the band wagon to force us to quit. 800 people die from cigarette fires? DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE SMOKE IN THE US? Do you know how many people die from the pollutants from the vinyl siding on your house? The exhaust from your car? The mercury in our river fish?

If my cigarette smoking bothers you DON'T sit next to me. Go to a different restaurant. Eat your meals and drink your beers outside or at home. But don't preach to me about how bad it is then force ME to pay for your kids schools or your road repair help you keep YOUR property taxes down.

We in NH lost our ability to smoke at the bar, and now our ability to smoke a cigarette without having to light it every 20 seconds. It's been a bad couple of weeks for us up here.

I get it, I really do. I "get" that people don't wanna smell my crappy cigarette. I'm not thrilled with having to go outside everyfrickenwhere to have a smoke - but I DO understand. I do NOT understand why my cigarette keeps going out. Why am I being punished because my neighbor can't stay awake while smoking? He's an idiot! Cigarette + bed = flaming death.

It's only been 2 days into this SE cig., adventure - but I think it's been about 2 weeks now, since they've replaced the other smokes in the stores. We're all sucking marbles through a straw, all of our chests feel like they're gonna cave in, and no one's experienced these feelings before.

Someone a few posts back said they quit on the count of the SE cigarette - and that was the discussion around the house today. We're all going to quit. Not because we don't want to smoke - I personally wasn't ready to quit. I've been smokin' for 25 years and know its TIME to - but I wasn't ready. Now, I feel that if I continue smoking, something is really going to hit the fan in a few years. I feel like crap now, imagine what next month or the month after will be like?

Ok governmental beings, we get your point. You want everyone to conform. It's working.

Quick, everyone buy stock in nicotine patches - sales are going to skyrocket!

The new SE-cigarettes sold in NY State are terrible. They burn erratically and cause more ash and embers to blow off of the cigarette than the older, non-SE smokes did. Never mind the fact that they taste bad, burn hotter and smell worse.

I guess it's okay to further endanger the health of millions of smokers so that 300 or so people that die each year in cigarette-related fires can continue to smoke in bed. Makes perfect sense to me. Yeah, right. This is just a bald-faced ploy on the part of state and local governments to exercise even more control over our rights to use a legal product.

As long as tobacco is a legal product in this country the government does not have the right to tax me excessively regarding if, where, how and when I purchase it. They also do not have the right to force manufacturers to modify their legal products to make them inferior and more harmful directly to me.

I really do not need the government to police my personal behavior, either by excessive taxation or by policy.

What I need them to do is tackle the big issues - like why it is that we do not have a National Health Care System? We are the largest and wealthiest nation in the world. How is it possible that 50 million Americans that work do not have health coverage and our elected officials are doing nothing about this? How is it possible that they have time to pass legislation like SE-cigarettes yet they ignore the larger, more important issues?

I am definitely adjusting my voting preferences in all future elections accordingly.

Once again the government has stepped into our lives and tried to make things better. I have had nothing but a sore throat since those damn s.e.cigs. hit the stores in NY. I had a pack of non-s.e. and a pack of s.e. at the same time.....so I was able to really say that s.e was the clupret of the sore throat. They also leave a chemical taste on your tongue. Well....I have quit smoking. Not because I want to...really. But...I'm sick of NY laws. Sure...I'll be better off not being a smoker. That is if I don't go insane from quiting!!!! I quess I'm also afraid that 10 years from now they will be saying....Whooops....all of you people that have been smoking the S.E. cigs....sorry but we didn't do enough testing. I hate not smoking because of other peoples decisions! Has anyone been able to find info on just what kind of chemicals have they added to the paper? I really dont think it's just the thickness that extinguishes them.

Okay, here we go. To all the anti-smoking comments. I am an addict. I was as some of you said "sucked in" before all the risks were known. I have tried quite a few different things-to quit such as the classes by the American Heart Association, The American Lung Association, The American Cancer Society ( 3 times)- not one person quit. I have tried the gum, hypnosis, acupuncture, sunflower seeds and cold turkey. If I had the time and the money sometimes I think the Betty Ford Clinic would do it (help me quit). So to all the people with the anti-smoking comments-good for you! Congratulations-you escaped! I didn't and now I am appalled at these new "self-extinguishing cigarettes". As Marie says -my lungs hurt- and they never did before like they do now. Is it because I have to puff more and harder to keeo them going and get my little hit of nicotine? Or, is it because there is something more in the paper then these little ridges? I am concerned-very concerned! Also, as Mr. Walsh and roadwarrior write there are more burning embers flying around-it happened to me in my car driving to work ( one of the last places I'm "allowed" to smoke ). What do I say- Well, officer I was trying to put out all the flying embers in my car when I hit that other vehicle.? No, there was no accident- but I can see it happening. I would really like to know the new make-up of this paper. Granted cigarettes are already toxic but I have a bad feeling about this. This was not well thought out or tested legislation and Mew York smokers are the guinea pigs.

Lets outlaw self extinguishing cigarettes.

Not only do they give me a sore throat, I never got one before they changed them, but they are dangerous.

When they start to die out little bits of burning tobacco drop out of the paper. I have a burn on my chest and many of my clothes have holes in them.

I would like to know what chemicals I am inhaling when it burns past the strip that puts them out?

Any one for a class action suit????

First of all, I quickly became tired reading all of the anti-smoking comments. So I'm sure I missed some good comments on the subject and I apologize if mine is repetitive....but nicely and succintly put M. Marien (and to all of you "non-smoking, anti-carbohydrate, wheatgrass eating, kapaweta-learning, pleasure-Nazi's", I couldn't care less what additives they put in your eighteen dollar an ounce protein shake mixes so please don't presume you can comment when someone screws with the things that give me pleasure)

As miserable as I find these new cigarettes (i've been to every store in three towns and cleaned them out of every last untouched pack...yes, they did it to Parliament too IWTT), I'm having a tremendous laugh at the usual stupidity and ignorance demonstrated by the NYS legislators. Did anyone actually test these things or was this just another "knee-jerk-let-me-get-back-to-screwing-my-intern" decisions? The mechanics of these cigarettes are such that when you try to re-ignite the thing (when awake like a reasonably intelligent person) the ember is so deep behind the paper that a good eighth to a quarter inch of the paper wrapping goes completely fiery and any draft at all sends burning paper all over the place. I'm thinking of sueing the state for all the brand new burn-holes in my upholestery. I never had these problems before.

Once again...brilliant job

Anybody else is getting real sick from those stupid *!?**?!! self-extinguishing cigarettes? I get sick from smoking every now and then (yearly bronchitis in the winter) but right now I have razor blades in my lungs - IN JULY?

I have read most of your comments and am left with a generally upset stomach. This is not and issue pertaining to the health factor of smoking...."should we smoke?..or..shouldn't we?"....If I decide to smoke that's my description, not yours or anyone else's...if I decide to walk backward down the sidewalks, or whistle while I walk that's not your business either!....I'm more or less tiered and appalled when I continue to hear of people signing away their freedoms for what they consider nobility or "In the best interest of the community". Ever hear the saying?..."good fences make good neighbors"???...this insinuates that staying in your own yard is a respectful thing. When I have to live under an umbrella of laws that restrict my ability to live life AS I SEE FIT...so that others can pat themselves on the back with the illusion of doing something noble for their neighbors...I say "Stay in your own damn yard!". This law in NY is just another freedom given back to the local and state governments due to the fact that these winning and patsy people are too irresponsible to manage thier freedoms themselves.....do you have to be a rocket scientist to not fall asleep with a lit cigarette in your paws...or god forbid I go to the bar to drink my liver away (still considered acceptable in NY) and wile doing so, not being able to rot my lungs away simultaneously.....but I have to be an eyesore the community by hanging around on the sidewalks like a vagrant and litter the streets with my fiberglass butts.....this seems to be a idiotic approach to an activity that some feel is "Bad for my health". Please!..Stay in your own yard!.....and now!..to compound my aggravated state as a free willing, non-brainwashed...non-fashion victim or peer pressured, arm twisted, cheered on, or over advertised...but again...free willing smoker, but now I have to literally smoke the Sh!# out of my cigarettes, outside like a vagrant, without being able to quench my summer thirst, and within an acceptable distance to churches, schools, and grandmas house...to simply enjoy what I in my own yard feel is a pleasing, and relaxing smoke. What the hell is going on people....lets stop surrendering our rights, because there are a few people out there that cant mange them....I an one of the few that can....save me for a fully controlled society...oh!...and please, respectfully.....STAY IN YOUR OWN DAMN YARD!

Once again the governmement is tring to micromanage my life S.E. cigarettes stink

Has anyone else noticed that these new failsafe cigs are harder to take a drag from?! Effing state law. It's like trying to suck a triplethick shake through a straw.

Asking why someone starts smoking is like asking why someone would have unprotected sex. Who cares why? The point is it happens. I started smoking because everyone I new at college was a smoker and it seemed like a cool thing to do, despite my mother's 30+ year habit and all the things I knew about the dangers of smoking. It was a very social activity for me (and still is; I can't tell you how many people I have met and talked to do based solely on the fact that were were corralled on a sidewalk, fire escape, balcony, etc. freezing our asses off for a cig.) and it makes me feel good about as often as it makes me feel like shit. As a poster upthread said, you have NO IDEA what it is like to be addicted to something until you start smoking and I think my nicotine habit is one of the reasons I have not tried really hardcore drugs.

I think that the anti-smoking folks would be smart to use our how (not why) we started smoking stories to impress upon non-smoking young people not to start, not because it will eventually kill you or because you should give in to peer pressure, but because is really, really hard to stop even if you really, really want to, which you won't want to do all the time because it is also really, really enjoyable. Especially when you're drinking or after unprotected sex.

23, smoked for 10+ years now. I think this is a great idea. is Parliament doing this yet?

"Since people get annoyed when their cigarettes go out...."

Then don't light 'em if your not going to smoke 'em.

All the folks out walking with one or talking/gesturing with one in their hand, ready to singe an innocent bystander...I feel like telling them, "Stick it in your mouth and smoke it already".

i'll give you the point that alcohol impairs judgement, but all those smoke-breaks impare productivity, no?

Namedropper, the reason that smokers are not considered in the same realm as alcoholics is that smoking does not impair your mental capacity...sure addicts may "get that tingly feeling" but they aren't stumbling down the hall of the office, unable to hold a conversation. To compare the two is like saying that people shouldn't smoke when they drive as people shouldn't drink when they drive because they both mess up your innards. Not quite the same argument.