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To burn or not to burn: an advocate’s report from the field

Correspondence to:
MrA McGuire
Trauma Foundation, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA; am@tf.org

Accepted 24 July 2005

Keywords: advocacy; fire-safe cigarette; home fires; safety

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During the past two years, three significant events have occurred that will lead to the global reduction of fires caused by cigarettes. First, on 6 May 2003 in a Cleburne, Texas courthouse, the Philip Morris cigarette company ended an eight year products liability case by agreeing to pay damages of $2 million to Shannon Moore before the case went to a jury. Shannon was 21 months old when she sustained a 77% burn injury in a fire caused by a Marlboro cigarette. This represents the first "admission" of guilt by a cigarette company after 15 unsuccessful lawsuits filed in the United States during the past 25 years. Second, on 28 June 2004 the first regulation of cigarettes for fire safety took effect in New York state. (In fact, this was the first time cigarettes have ever been subject to product regulation, although labeling, divulging ingredients, toxicity testing, and . . . [Full text of this article]

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