BARDSTOWN, KY – Debbie Coulter said she supports the right to smoke at her restaurant, but the 52-year-old shudders when she recalls a recent incident in which she fell asleep smoking and her ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- To prevent house fires set by careless smokers, New York state has adopted the nation's first rules mandating that cigarettes sold in the state must be rolled with lower-ignition paper ...

Minnesota’s new law requiring that cigarettes sold in the state be of the “fire safe” variety is the most significant fire-safety legislation to hit the state since smoke alarms were mandated 30 years ...

Two years after a procedural maneuver blocked similar legislation, the House voted 58-0 on Thursday to require tobacco companies to sell only fire-safe cigarettes in Oregon. Watching were retired ...

Safety is behind a new type of cigarette Indiana retailers will be required to sell starting next month. Under a new state law, all cigarettes sold starting July 1 must be fire-safety compliant, 6News ...

Ask your holiday guests to smoke outside and to carefully dispose of cigarettes either by wetting the end or placing them in a deep ashtray away from anything that can burn. Keep cigarettes, lighters, ...