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Originally Posted by weswood
A few years ago they did something to the ciggarettes for safety, not sure what, but if you're not actively smoking it, it will go out. Like if you set it down for a few minutes then come back to it, odds are you'll have to relight it.
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As a fellow smoker, I must provide OT info.
Next time you're smoking, look at your cigarette closely. See those little lines up and down the paper? Those were powdered with gunpowder and magnesium(?) or some other flammable stuff. The legislature put a limit on it but it's still there.
Put your cigarette in an ashtray and watch it burn down to one of those lines, in American cigarettes you can still see a little flare as the powder is ignited and keeps the cigarette burning. The older versions were much more visible.
Based on the theory that if it kept burning, you would need to buy more sooner rather than later.