Granny's gone and done it again

[CapricornFarm]

Government stop adding all those terrible chemicals it wouldnt be as bad.

Nicotine gums up your lungs.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Morning all, What a night ! no sleep of course. Went to bed at 3 and was drinking coffee w/ Robert by 6.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I slept ok, but I wake up around 7. Look at phone, go back to sleep.
Going to Martinsville tomorrow.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

You mean the tobacco companies. They are the ones making money off you. And inhaling smoke into your lungs is a bad thing no matter what is in it. Lungs are not built to deal with the particulates in any type of smoke.

In 1929, a cigarette-ignited fire in Lowell, Massachusetts, caught the attention of U.S. Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers (D-MA); she called for the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) to develop the first less fire-prone cigarette, which NBS introduced in 1932. The Boston Herald American covered the story on 31 March 1932, noting that after three years of research the NBS had developed a “self-snubbing” cigarette and had suggested that cigarette manufacturers “take up the idea.” None did.[3]

In 1973, the United States Congress established the Consumer Product Safety Commission[4] (CPSC) to protect the public from hazardous products. Congress excluded tobacco products from its jurisdiction while assigning it responsibility for flammable fabrics.[5] The CPSC regulated the flammability of mattresses[5] and worked with furniture manufacturers to establish voluntary flammability standards[6] for upholstered furniture, although more recently[when?] those standards have come to be considered mandatory.[5]

In 1978 Andrew McGuire, a burn survivor, started a grassroots campaign to prevent house fire deaths by changing the cigarette.[7] McGuire secured funding for an investigation into cigarettes and fires which became Cigarettes and Sofas: How the Tobacco Lobby Keeps the Home Fires Burning. Massachusetts congressman Joe Moakley introduced federal FSC legislation in the autumn of 1979 after a cigarette fire in his district killed a family of seven; California senator Alan Cranston authored a matching Senate bill.

To forestall legislation mandating the inclusion of fire-safety features in cigarettes, the US Tobacco Institute financed a fire prevention education program in parallel with the campaign Fighting Fire with Firemen.[8][9][10]

In 1984, the Cigarette Safety Act funded a three-year study National Bureau of Standards (later NIST) study on how cigarettes and furnishings ignited and remained lit. “This understanding of the physics of ignition enabled the NBS team to develop two test methods for the ignition strength of cigarettes, under the auspices of the CPSC. This reported to US Congress in 1987 that it was technically feasible and maybe commercially feasible to make a cigarette that was less likely to start fires.[11] Legislative activity continued in the states while the federal government, cigarette companies, and advocates discussed next steps. McGuire and colleagues continued to inform advocates about cigarette fires and prevention strategies, legislation and liability.[7][12][13][14]

A compromise led to the US Fire Safe Cigarette Act of 1990, which required additional NIST research on the interaction of burning cigarettes with soft furnishings, such as upholstered furniture and beds.[15] The resulting study, while contentious, laid the groundwork for a flammability test method for cigarettes.[15][16] Federal efforts to implement a standard stalled, as the Reagan and Bush administrations preferred free markets to regulation. The grassroots campaign focused on state efforts. McGuire continued to publish progress reports.[17][18][19]

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Whats going on in Martinsville ?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Whats going on in Martinsville ?

Feed store.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

did you ever get that feed delivered you were supposed to get ?

 

[CapricornFarm]

did you ever get that feed delivered you were supposed to get ?

No, the guy is full of.............air. Hot air.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I dont know why people have to act like that.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Cat brought me a hair tie, I put it in my hair. Then she brought me the tooth brush I clean bators with. I keep it downstairs,! I am in the upstairs bathroom. Omg, I am so tired I want to go back to sleep!