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6 North Carolinians have lost their lives in cigarette-related fires since this coalition was formed in January 2007.

 
 


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N.C.: 'Fire-safe' cigarettes advance - Boston.com
The bill would bar the sale of any other type of cigarette in North Carolina. Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones said such cigarettes might have prevented a ...
 

Winston-Salem Journal | Bill would require 'fire-safe' cigarette
The bill would bar the sale of any other type of cigarette in North Carolina. The chief of the Chapel Hill Fire Department, Dan Jones, said that such ...
 

House committee approves 'fire-safe cigarette' Personal Injury ...
On June 5, 2007, the North Carolina House Judiciary I committee approved a bill ... "Fire-safe cigarette" legislation was passed in New York and adopted in ...
 

Fire-Safe Cigarettes
Lawmakers in NC spurred to pass legislation ... the U.S. is produced, North Carolina lawmakers are being urged to support fire-safe cigarette legislation. ...
 

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House committee OKs fire-safe cigarette measure
Winston-Salem Journal (subscription) - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
The bill would bar the sale of any other type of cigarette in North Carolina. Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones said that such cigarettes might have ...
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007, at the North Carolina General Assembly
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA
"Fire-safe" cigarettes are rolled with special paper that smothers the burning tobacco unless someone is actively smoking the cigarette. ...
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Brush fire snuffed
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
According to the National Weather Service in Raleigh, rain has been particularly sparse over central North Carolina during May. ...
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Dry conditions prime for wildfire
Burlington Times News - Burlington,NC,USA
There are currently no bans on burning in North Carolina. If conditions warrant a ban, she said, that starts with a recommendation from the Division of ...
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Doctor shares diagnosis for success
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA
After residency at the University of North Carolina, it was off to the Great Plains, where Asma was able to get on the faculty at the University of Nebraska ...
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Legislative Briefs
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
SMOKED OUT: With the cautious support of North Carolina's tobacco manufacturers, a House committee approved a bill that would require the companies to make ...
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Acton News & Commentary
Acton Institute - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
...I wonder if Brod, in his job as director of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Office of Business and Economic Research, he has that same ...
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House OKs Fire-Safe Cigarettes
abc11tv.com - Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville,NC,USA
Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones told the committee that a fire that killed five people at the University of North Carolina in 1996 had smoldered in a trash ...
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A Civil War road trip
Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
A blue spot in a red state, the home of the University of North Carolina has a cosmopolitan atmosphere built around its traditional red-brick campus. ...
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George Packer: The Assassins Gate
Even the frayed, long-outmoded jackets the Iraqi men wore and the eternal cigarette butts dangling from their lips looked the same. As a rule, Iraqi men always turned out to be at least a decade younger than my first guess, ...
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North Carolina Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes
Our mission: The North Carolina Fire-Safe Cigarette Coalition is working to save lives and prevent injuries and devastation from cigarette-ignited fires. ...
 

Wilmington, North Carolina Drug & Alcohol Rehab Treatment Center ...
So-called "fire-safe cigarette" legislation has been introduced in the ... In Kentucky, the state Senate passed a fire-safe cigarette bill this week; ...
 

Winston-Salem Journal | Bill would require 'fire-safe' cigarette
The bill would bar the sale of any other type of cigarette in North Carolina. The chief of the Chapel Hill Fire Department, Dan Jones, said that such ...
 

Cigarette fire takes out Internet2 | Channel Register
Cigarette fire takes out Internet2. By John Leyden More by this author. 3 May 2007 11:45 ... Logicalis buys NC HP reseller. Beefing up the southeast ...
 

Reporter's Blog: Isaac Hunter's Tavern -- North Carolina Public ...
10:00 - House J1 takes up the "Fire-Safe Cigarette" (?) bill, requiring cigarette makers to design cigarettes to go out if unattended. 10:30 - NC Retail ...
 

N.C.: 'Fire-Safe' Cigarettes Advance: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
The bill would bar the sale of any other type of cigarette in North Carolina. Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones said such cigarettes might have prevented a ...
 

THE TOLL OF TOBACCO IN NORTH CAROLINA
North Carolina cigarette tax per pack: 5¢ (National rank: 50th) [States' .... "Progress Toward a Fire-Safe Cigarette," Journal of Public Health Policy ...
 

The North Carolina News Network - Home
The North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research report looked at the 93 ... The paper wrapping would have to be treated so the cigarette would go out ...
 

newsobserver.com
Twenty-two other states have bills pending -- but not North Carolina. * * *. The tobacco industry claims fire safety can be accomplished by changing ...
 

News-Record.com - Greensboro, North Carolina: : Cigarette started ...
RALEIGH (AP) - A cigarette discarded on a couch apparently started a fire that killed two N.C. State students and injured Greensboro sophomore, according to ...
 

NC House Panel OKs Standard for 'Fire-Safe' Cigarettes
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
The bill would bar the sale of any other type of cigarette in North Carolina. Chapel Hill Fire Chief Dan Jones said such cigarettes might have prevented a ...
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EU to force smokers to use `fire-safe' cigarettes
Taipei Times - Taiwan
At the moment some people come home, have had a few drinks, fall asleep on the sofa with a cigarette in their hand, it falls on to flammable material and ...
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Maryland Governor Inks Fire-Safe Cigarette Law
Firehouse.com (subscription) - USA
Martin O'Malley on Wednesday lauded first responders for their tireless effort to get fire-safe cigarette legislation on the books. Moments after making the ...
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Fire-safe cigarettes save lives
New Haven Register (subscription) - New Haven,CT,USA
Investigators believe the fire was caused by a burning cigarette dropped by a smoker who fell asleep. Phillip Morris USA, the nation's largest cigarette ...
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State to require fire-safe cigarettes
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
John Marty, DFL-Roseville, who has been pushing for the fire-safe cigarette since 1987. It may seem counterintuitive to require tobacco companies to make a ...
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New European cigarettes will put themselves out
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
This sight will be a thing of the past in Europe when 'fire-safe' cigarettes are introduced. Photo / Brett Phibbs Cigarettes that stop burning within two ...
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Bill would require 'fire-safe' cigarette
Winston-Salem Journal (subscription) - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... that fire-safe cigarettes wouldn't prevent all such fires but would cut down on their number by reducing the length of time that a discarded cigarette ...
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Cigarettes sold in state could soon be fire-safe
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
He said fire-safe cigarettes would potentially save hundreds of lives across the country. New York became the first state to enact fire-safe cigarette ...
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Fire safe cigarettes coming to Tri-States soon.
KHQA - Quincy,IL,USA
By Stephen Johnson If you live in Illinois or Iowa a new kind of cigarette is headed to a store near you. Unlike normal cigarettes, fire safe cigarettes ...
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Fire Safe Cigarette
Cost of fires started by dropped (not fire safe) cigarettes.
 

Fire-Safe Cigarettes
As a result of the Fire-Safe Cigarette Act of 1990, the same 15 member group reported to Congress that a fire safety "test method" had been developed for ...
 

OregonLive.com: Politics Updates: Fire-safe cigarette requirement ...
House Bill 2163 makes Oregon the ninth state to limit cigarette sales to fire-safe cigarettes. New York passed the first fire-safe cigarette requirements in ...
 

Fire-Safe Cigarettes Coming Soon - CBS News
The state accounted for 4.3 percent of U.S. cigarette sales in 2002, ... Francisco General Hospital, who began crusading for fire-safe cigarettes in 1979. ...
 

Fire Safe Cigarettes :: Home - The Coalition for Fire Safe Cigarettes
The Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes is working to save lives and prevent injuries and devastation from cigarette-ignited fires.The Coalition is calling ...
 

Burn Prevention
THE FIRE-SAFE CIGARETTE. A BURN PREVENTION TOOL ... A common scenario is the delayed ignition of a sofa or mattress by a lit cigarette dropped by a smoker. ...
 

Making A Fire-Safe Cigarette
The call for a fire-safe cigarette dates at least to the late 1920s, when Massachusetts Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers pushed unsuccessfully for a ...
 

Fire Safe Cigarette Bill Introduced
Tobacco companies would be required to make cigarettes that stop burning by themselves instead of continuing to smolder if dropped or left unattended under ...