TULSA, OK - A Tulsa apartment fire is blamed on a carelessly discarded cigarette. Some wonder if the fire could have been prevented had the cigarette been deemed fire safe. It is not known if the ...
Cathy Hedrick?s son, a Prince George?s County volunteer firefighter, died 15 years ago while trying to rescue a victim trapped in a blaze caused by an unattended cigarette. Supporters of a safe ...
BOSTON — Cigarettes that snuff themselves out when left unattended may not be healthier, but fire safety officials are hoping they could save a life. A new law went into effect Tuesday in ...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- To prevent house fires set by careless smokers, New York state has adopted the nation's first rules mandating that cigarettes sold in the state must be rolled with lower-ignition paper ...
October 25, 2007 -- Today's announcement by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company that it will manufacture all of its cigarette brands using "fire-safe" technology (PDF, 29 KB) is a victory for all of those ...
Self-extinguishing cigarettes could be coming to Illinois soon. If Gov. Rod Blagojevich signs new legislation into law, all cigarettes sold in the state will have the ability to put themselves out if ...
BARDSTOWN, KY – Debbie Coulter said she supports the right to smoke at her restaurant, but the 52-year-old shudders when she recalls a recent incident in which she fell asleep smoking and her ...
As of Jan. 1, stores in five states may only sell slow-burning cigarettes. FORT WORTH, Texas — Laws mandating stores only sell cigarettes that are slow-burning and fire-safe went into effect in five ...
Minnesota’s new law requiring that cigarettes sold in the state be of the “fire safe” variety is the most significant fire-safety legislation to hit the state since smoke alarms were mandated 30 years ...
Are safe cigarettes an oxymoron? Apparently not, if the people behind the NicStic are to be believed. It’s a battery-powered cigarette that vaporizes tobacco rather than burning it (much like the ...
Although the major cancer-causing substance in cigarette tar has not yet been identified, so much is now known about it that smoking could be rendered relatively harmless—without waiting for the ...
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