BRUSSELS PLANS SELF-EXTINGUISHING CIGARETTE RULE

BY KEITH NUTHALL EUROPEAN Commission officials are developing proposed standards insisting all cigarettes sold in the European Union (EU) should be self-extinguishing from 2010. The proposals should be released this autumn by new Bulgarian consumer affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, and would - claim Brussels bureaucrats - prevent most smoking-related domestic fires, which kill around 2,000 EU citizens annually. They added the law would reflect standards in place in the US and Canada. Philip Morris has said it supports the plan but added that "smokers must also ...


Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.