These have been on sale in alaska for more than 2 yrs. They are called 72's. It takes less than 4 mins. to smoke one. No complaints from me when it's 30 below zero F

Brian H., Anchorage, Alaska, USA

No doubt the EU will ban cigarettes shorter than 8.5cm long in order to scupper such insolence.

Be good debt slaves and get back to work. You've got to earn more money for us good ethical corporations

Matt Myers, Redhill, UK

Insane idea, less than a 1cm difference and double the strength! Come on people, if you were not killing yourselves fast enough before then you will be doing it now. Double strength! so basically a 20-a-day habit will become equivlant to double that and if your stressed then you have more breaks - see the light people...give up!

Mike'ee, London,

It is only matched by the desperation of the Anti-Smoking Organisations and the Government (who know that it is now Internationally recognised that SHS does not kill) to justify their draconian and socially divisive smoking bans.

Eddie , Edinburgh, Scotland

What a great idea - now we can get in two cigarettes in a smoke break instead of only one !!!!!

P Barrett, Valletta, Malta

Forest is wrong to say that people "enjoy the sensation of having a cigarette". When I used to smoke up to 60 cigarettes a day I only enjoyed a very few of them. Gratifying an addiction seldom gives pleasure but it frequently stops you feeling the misery of deprivation. Quite a different story.

Tom Denne, 58290 Limanton, France