All cigarettes sold in Wisconsin would have to be the type that automatically extinguish when they're not being smoked under a bill that has passed the Assembly.
Wisconsin would join 22 other states in requiring that only fire-safe cigarettes be sold should the bill also clear the Senate and be signed by the governor.
Tobacco companies do not oppose the measure, which has the support of firefighters and emergency responders.
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R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company plans to voluntarily switch all its cigarettes to the fire-safe kind by the end of next year.
National Academies Report on Effects of Moderate Drinking is a Death Knell
for Recommending Moderate Alcohol Consumption
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The viability of recommending moderate alcohol consumption as a step to
reduce all-cause mortality was given a death blow yesterday by the release
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