[cooljay788]

I'm surprised there's no thread within this Marlboro topic based on Marlboro Lights....the otha popular Marlboro brand.

Any Marlboro Lights smokers in the house? I rememba the days at my college where I saw lots of sexy chicks smoking Marlboro Light kings. Not too many women on campus smoked the Marlboro Lights 100's.

[barfly]

I used to smoke these before the prices soared. I would smoke them if the price weren't so high. Even if the prices came down, I wouldn't smoke them now since they are FSC and they taste horrible because of it. My sister had a lifelong habit of smoking these Marlboro lights 100s but the price has forced her to switch to 305s. Once in a while she will get the marlboros but not often. She swears they taste bad now and give her headaches.

[cooljay788]

Yup, bad taste, and headaches are the common effects I heard from otha online smokers who tried the FSCs. Sore throats seem to be anotha common effect.

I bet doctors love the FSCs. Since some smokers have been going to the hospitals more often for FSC-related illnesses.

[Chief Smoker]

These are my preferred brand right now and I'm fortunate enough to have never tasted the FSC variety. Now I want to... to see the difference. Anyone know a place online I can get the Fire safe variety??

[cooljay788]

You can probably buy a fire-safe pack of Marlboro Lights offline soon. Because even if your state has no FSC law, Philip Morris is making all of their brands FSCs.

I suggest you stick to the non-FSCs. You ain't missing nothing by not smoking the more dangerous FSC Marlboro Lights. If you google for the repeal fire safe cigs online petiton, you'll change your mind in a flash after reading the 99.9% negativity I read on smoking FSCs.

[barfly]

Originally Posted by Chief Smoker I'm fortunate enough to have never tasted the FSC variety. Now I want to... to see the difference.

The FSC cigs make me choke! I can't breathe all of a sudden and I got pins and needles going off in my head along with little headaches. I don't have a brain tumor either. Only with FSC cigs do I have these problems. If all cigs become FSCs, we all might be quitting or dying a lot sooner than expected. All to save a few from burning their houses down from smoking in bed! Its like using a bazooka to cut my toenails - really stupid!

[cooljay788]

I feel sorry for this Marlboro Light smoker who has to smoke the FSC Marlboro Lights. I found this on a complaint-based site.

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I have been smoking Marlboro cigarettes since 1972, and paid .38 a pack and have paid the increases over the years, and although I can't afford the price you put on them, I still smoke them by choice even if I have to cut back on food and other luxurys to be able to. About the last week or so, I have burned holes in everything I own because they won't burn. When I light them back up, the paper flames up and then falls off on wherever I'm sitting, and before I can take another drag off of it, it goes out again.

When I put the cigarette out, I want another one as soon as I'm finished, because I didn't get to smoke the first one. I heard the government put something in them so they wouldn't burn. That's like making food you can't eat. What's the purpose? I quit for three months cold turkey when I turned 43 because I wasn't getting to go walking to counteract the cough and congestion. The nicotine habit isn't hard to break. It only stays in my system 7 days so I don't get the joke on companys making 1000's of dollars by taking advantage of smokers. I chose the habit when I was 13 and I still choose it at 50 except now I can't smoke because they won't stay lit. I don't feel that anyone has the right to say how I smoke.

I have invested many dollars on Marlboros and Marlboro products through promotions and other oppurtunities. I already can't smoke in public. I had to go to a designated area at work before an 18 wheeler pulled out in front of me and broke my knee in 4 places, broke my ankle off and had surgery to put 2 screws in my ankle plus it crushed my heel totally.

I had three surgerys. I couldn't smoke in the hospital and I've been on the couch with my leg elevated for 5 1/2 months to keep it from swelling. Since I can't work and all I can do is lay around, I smoke even more than I did before. I've already used up a can of butane from having to fill my lighter up everyday because of having to light each cigarette 10 or 12 times. It is very aggravating. I'm paying $5.00 a pack or $45.00 per carton to have my luxury of choice.

I made 1.65 an hour when they were 38 cents a pack. Now I make 8.00 an hour (or was before I was injured)and they are 5.00. That alone is rediculous, but now I'm paying that and can't even enjoy them. I don't know who's idea it was to add an anti-burn ingredient to a product that is supposed to burn, but it has definitely devestated me. At this point until I get better, my quality of life is laying in pain, watching T.V. to distract myself from it and smoking. I have an air filter that creates a natural ozone in my home, so it's not like I'm inconsiderate of others around me. I'm very considerate of others every where I go because I realize it's my habit and I have great respect for those that don't smoke, including my daughter.

I already put up with having to clean nicotine off of everything in my home because it's my choice to smoke, but I believe that someone is determined to put tobacco companies out of business by making this change and it's been around since the beginning of time when it came from a seed that God put here for people like me. Instead of spending $200.00 + per month in the future to buy them ready made from whoever is messing them up, I'm having my neice take me to the tobacco store tomorrow to buy a pound of tobacco and the tubes with filters on them and I can roll 3 cartons for $20.00. I'm happy about the savings but I'm very disappointed in whoever made the choice to screw up a commodity. I remember when Santa Claus advertised Winston on T.V.

I hope enough smokers complain and the economy will suffer worse than it already is so they will have to go back to the way they were. If not, I've got 2 sleeping bags, a tent, multiple keychains, lighters, T-shirts, beach towels, and other items with the Marlbore logo on them that I will not use anymore. I hope they don't start putting additives in sugar or coffee or a million other things that makes America turn everyday by making them undesirable. They've already got the planet to where we can barely live on it as it is, because no one can afford anything of their choice if they have an average job and didn't have the money to go to college.

I don't mean to sound rude, but my dad fought in World War II and risked his life so that the Country could remain "free" and I have worked hard since I was 13 and now I'm 50, can't work because of someone else's lack of paying attention and couldn't afford to go to the Doctor or Dentist when I was able to work so I think they should leave cigarettes alone for Pete's sake. For what it's worth, THANK YOU!

[thor91]

I've read the story above and found it terribly sad and was completely angered by it. It's horrible how cigarettes have become so reconstructed and reminds me how horrible people are to people who smoke cigarettes and are way nicer to people who smoke meth and heroine. They make it seem so acceptable that thousands of deaths are caused by drinking and alcoholism, but have enough brass to say people who smoke are more suicidal. At leaast smokers are aware of the consequences and choose to accept them instead of not choosing to die and getting killed by drunk drivers unwillingly each year. It's unforgivable.

[storrs19]

"I made $1.65 an hour when they were 38 cents a pack. Now I make $8.00 an hour (or was before I was injured)and they are $5.00".

That right there sums it up. Who the hell ever thought you would have to work 10 hours to buy a damn carton of cigarettes? After taxes you get about $5.50 an hour. This is freaking nuts!

[cooldude]

You want to go back to the old days of cheap cigarettes? Start rolling your own. Even with the tax increases, it's only around eighty cents a pack to make your own.