are clove cigarettes more harmful than regular cigarettes? And if so, why?

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[This message was edited by Karrow on 08-21-03 at 02:39 AM.]

I've heard (but I cannot quote the source) that clove cigarettes contain fiberglass which is why people who smoke them regularly end up coughing up blood. I do not know if this is true, but I do know that everyone I know who does smoke cloves regularly (I'm talking daily, not just once a week or so) does cough up blood, regularly. That cannot be good.

Elexina - I've never heard that clove cigarettes contained fiberglass...but there is an old urband legend that states menthol cigarettes do
Snopes.com
Maybe the clove story is an urban legend too!

Back in the 80s there was a new brand invented - can't remember the name of them but the smoke smelled like chocolate! For real!!! They weren't half bad either. Wonder why they were pulled off the market....

Georgia

Those cigarettes are called Bidis.

They had strawberry,chocolate and vanilla smells. They tried taking them off the market because they were attracting too many young smokers. They do still sell them at a lot of places.

Clare - those aren't the cigarettes I was referring to. I just remembered what they were called! Horizon!! And they were on the market the year of 1990 and taken off the market shortly after.

I guess a lot of cigarettes don't make it.
Remember Newport Red? LOL


I tried to find something about Horizon but I couldn't. I do see a Horizon business name by RJ Reynolds Co. They probably made them.

I remember Newport...but not reds...and I did a search for Horizen and saw where I can buy them off the internet. Yet nowhere can I find that they had a chocolate smell...so maybe my memory has once again failed me

Newport Reds was a non menthol cigarette. It couldn't compete with Marlboro Reds. I think that was around 1990 but I'm not sure. (my memory is going too. LOL)