INTERNATIONAL CIGARETTE FIRE SAFETY STANDARDS GAINING GROUND IN EUROPE
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL standards ensuring cigarettes are designed with a reduced risk of them causing fires are being taken forward in Europe, with the European Commission requesting a technical guideline by 2010. This would be approved by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) whose European standard would try to ensure a "reduced ignition propensity of cigarettes." The goal, said a CEN statement, "is to reduce the deaths, injuries, and damage caused by unattended cigarettes". CEN is still considering whether to take on the ...
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.