Cigarette FSC Law: does it cover cigars?

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I'm just wondering if anyone knows whether or not the FSC (fire safe cigarette) laws in place covers cigars in any way, I'm talking about the smaller cigarette type cigars that look the same except say cigars or cigarellos. I'm a smoker but I refuse to smoke these new FSC because they taste bad and I guarantee years down the road people have directly linked illnesses to the chemicals they use which is a variant of asbestos and moth balls compounds. The only tobacco I can get that is non FSC is roll your own or cigars and even the small ones are not FSC. I was informed at a tobacco store I will not name sells a cheaper roll your own tobacco that claims to be pipe tobacco so is not taxed as much which leads me to wonder if generic cigarette manufacturers could simply call their actual cigarettes cigars and avoid taxation as well as FSC laws.

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Witchy I can already tell you now that's the best answer possible and covered everything I wanted to know, but I'll leave open in case anyone wants to add their two cents about this. Important topic to many

Witchy · Accepted Answer

FSC doesn't cover cigars.  It also does not cover rolling papers or cigarette tubes for making your own cigarettes.  It may someday, but right now none of the laws cover these things.

In the US, the main legal difference between a cigarette and a cigar is that a cigarette is wrapped in a non-tobacco paper product.  A cigar is wrapped in a tobacco product.

Yes, some manufacturers have switched their products over to "mini-cigars".  When the clove cigarettes became illegal, the manufacturers started making clove mini-cigars.

It is true that some pipe tobaccos can be used for making cigarettes.  Definitely not all pipe tobaccos, but some.  While this has been true for many years, more pipe tobaccos that can easily be used is being marketed due to the insanely high price of tobaccos that are labeled as "cigarette tobaccos".  The difference in taxes is:
Federal Pipe tobacco tax $ 2.83 per pound
Federal cigarette tobacco tax $24.78 per pound
http://www.ttb.gov/main_pages/schip-summary.shtml

This site also tells the state tobacco taxes and FSC laws by state:
http://ryorevolution.com/ryo-tobacco-tax.html

A lot of people are switching to rolling their own.  There are some excellent tobaccos on the market.  I really like the tobaccos made by D&R and Peter Stokkebye.  It takes me about 5 minutes to roll a pack of filtered cigarettes and it costs about $1.50 a pack.  They aren't FSC and they taste great.

This is an excellent forum about rolling your own cigarettes.  You'll find lots of advice and reviews on different tobaccos, tubes, machines and retailers.  It's free and there are no ads.
http://forum.ryorevolution.com/

*************Edited to add:
There is now legislation in the House to raise the taxes on pipe tobacco from $2.83 a pound to $24.78 per pound just like RYO tobacco.  Those who disagree with this need to let their representatives know.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-4439
(to read the wording of the bill, just click on "Full Text".  It's a short read)

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