Little rings of gunpowder in the paper to make it act like a fuse, that's nothing.

At one point tobacco companies developed non-addictive cigarettes and kept it a secret.

Source: A long time back a friend of mine's brother was part of a faux-jury assembled by tobacco company lawyers to do like a focus group to research how real juries in some real trial might think/feel. They revealed all kinds of stuff to these folks. They made them sign NDAs, of course, but he told us everything anyway. That was one of the things I remember: they made non-addictive cigs and kept it a secret.

carapace says>"Little rings of gunpowder in the paper to make it act like a fuse..."

There is no gunpowder in cigarettes:

https://www.verywellmind.com/big-tobaccos-list-of-599-cigare...

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=27857

A non-addictive cigarette would have to have no nicotine b/c nicotine is addictive:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/toba...

"Source: A long time back a friend of mine's brother was part of a faux-jury assembled by tobacco company lawyers to do like a focus group to research how real juries in some real trial might think/feel."

Ycombinator post<--carapace<--friend<--brother<--faux-jury<--lawyers<--tobacco company

Even facts get changed when they're nested >5 levels deep in human networks.

especially if it had no nicotine, it could help people to stop smoking who miss the fidgeting or social aspect. e-cigarettes/vaping is really good for this, because you can taper down to 0mg liquid, keep vaping until you've kicked the nicotine, and then maybe months later try to stop all together

It's really not that surprising if you think about it. They have caffeine free coffee and alcohol free beer.

I suspect it would not do well as a product, all the downsides of smoking without the rewarding nicotine buzz. It would be interesting to learn more.

But we don’t sue Yankee Candle or the company that makes tea candles whenever someone falls asleep with those fires going. I don’t accept the jump in logic people used that caused the tobacco companies to need to fight these cases.

A person is holding something flammable without the respect it deserves. The human desperation to place blame needs to be restrained better.

People don't generally put candles on their furniture, cigarettes are often smoked on chairs.