Whether you buy them by the pack or by the carton, there is a small difference on the box signaling a big change inside.
"They have bands in the paper that cause the cigarette to go out if it's not actually being smoked," Steve Owens of Tobacco World says. "All cigarettes from here on out will be produced with these bands in them."
The new cigarette law went into effect January 1, 2010, orginally passed by the state legislature back in 2008.
The special bands are designed to stop fires from happening, when people leave their cigarettes unattended.
You can tell your pack of cigarettes is fire safe by looking at the barcode on the box. The letters "FSC" will be written on the pack.
For more information on fire safe cigarettes: www.firesafecigarettes.org
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