Fire-safe cigarette delay ‘costing lives’
Anti-smoking campaigners say lives will be lost because of a delay in bringing in new self-extinguishing cigarettes. . . .
They were due to be introduced across the EU later this year, but work on developing an EU standard is running at least six months behind schedule.
Deborah Arnott, of anti-smoking group Ash, said the cigarettes would mean a “significant decline” in fire deaths.
