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Click this link
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=253CE209-2994-4D17-8F84-E52AB0BE280A&f=00&fg=email

I spent the majority of my career in sales working for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. In 1994 we test marketed what was called a " Safer cigarette" ( no comment on that description). The product was called Eclipse prior to that there was another tested in 1988 called Premier and was introduced on a very limited basis. The short story was this product was not ready for prime time. Smokers thought it was horrible and likened it to smoking plastic. There's more on it at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/history2.html





[This message has been edited by Stephenm52 (edited 05-31-2007).]

Actually, the product is in Denmark. Don't know if it will ever reach the states. Or if it will even catch on in Denmark.
Jim

SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE

Merle Travis/Tex Ritter

1. Now I'm a fella with a heart of gold - With the ways of a gentleman I've been told
A kind of a guy that wouldn't even harm a flea
But if me and a certain character met - The guy that invented the cigarette
I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree

2. It ain't that I don't smoke myself - And I don't reckon they'll hinder your health
I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet
But nicotine slaves are all the same - At a pettin� party or a poker game
Everythin's gotta stop while you have that cigarette

Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette

3. Now at a game of chance the other night - Ol' Dame Fortune was a doin' me right
The kings and queens just kept on comin' round
And I got a full and I bettet high - But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy
He just kept a risin' and layin' his money down

4. He'd raise me and I'd raise him - And I sweated blood you gotta sink or swim
He finally called and he couldn�t raise the bet
I said �aces full pal how about you‿ - He said �I'll tell you in a minute or two
But right now I just gotta have another cigarette‿

Smoke smoke smoke...
[ piano ]

5. Now the other night I had me a date - With the cutest little gal in the fifty states
One of them highbred up-town fancy little dames
She said she loved me and it seemed to me - That things were just about like they oughta be
So hand in hand we strolled down Lover's Lane

6. She was oh so far from a chunk of ice - And our smoochin' party was a goin' real nice
So help me Hannah and I think I'd of been there yet
I give her a kiss and a little squeeze - And she said �would you excuse me please
But I just gotta have another cigarette‿

Smoke smoke smoke... X 2

Punishment Tax

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This was taken from our local newspaper and I thought it was a very good point.

I am not shocked at all to see such a big increase for cigarettes because it is an easy source of revenue for Mr Brown.

I don�t know what this world, or country, is coming to. You can't do this, don't do that, prohibition 2007-style. You can drink alcohol from morning till the next morning. But light a fag and it's call in the heavy boys.

Non-smokers don't know what they are missing and those wimps that have smoked and are now non-smokers and the holier than thou brigade don't realise that they are more likely to get killed by a lung disease from car fumes, CO2 in the air they breathe and god knows what from the additives they eat.

So, in the words of an Army phrase, Carry on Smoking lads or, in a now obsolete phrase, put that in your pipe and smoke it.