Fire-Safe Cigarettes

EDM number 598 in 2009-10, proposed by John Mason on 13/01/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Smoking.

That this House congratulates the US states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee on the implementation on 1 January 2010 of legislation for fire-safe cigarettes, which have a reduced tendency to burn when left unattended; hopes that this will be a step towards reducing the number of fire deaths and injuries; further notes that this now leaves only one state, Wyoming, still to pass such legislation; believes that the European Commission is lagging behind in the development of an agreed European standard; and calls on the Government to assist in speeding up the process.

This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.