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Tob Control 2008;17:4-5
  • News analysis

EUROPE: AGREEMENT ON REDUCING CIGARETTE FIRES

  1. Deborah Arnott1,
  2. Florence Berteletti2
  1. 1
    Action on Smoking & Health, London, UK
    ; deborah.arnott@ash.org.uk
  2. 2
    Smoke Free Partnership, Brussels, Belgium
    ; florence.berteletti@ersnet.org

      On 29 November 2007, European Union (EU) member states overwhelmingly endorsed plans to draw up proposals for a standard to combat the leading cause of home fire fatalities each year. It will require tobacco companies to sell only self-extinguishing (reduced ignition potential (RIP)) cigarettes. The decision by member states in the General Product Safety Directive committee …

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