Exploding cigarettes

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Exploding cigarettes

In this 1996 letter, a consumer writes to R.J. Reynolds telling them that the Doral Menthol 100 cigarettes he bought frequently explode while he was smoking them. He writes, "[T]he flame goes out immediately, but its enough to burn your fingers-or sizzle your nose tip-or, more commonly, drop the cigarette....[The soft popping sounds the explosion makes] sounds a little like my dad's cigarettes used to sound in pre-war Manila when the tiny worms within the tobacco would "pop" as he smoked."

He states this has happened with several cartons he purchased at Wal Mart.

Title EXPLODING CIGARETTES
Author ROBINSON JW
Date 19960910
Type CONSUMER LETTER
Bates 518209245/9246
Collection RJ Reynolds
Pages 2
URL: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wft56d00

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