Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2014. A six-year-old Massachusetts law requiring that only “fire-safe” cigarettes (FSCs) be sold in the state appears to decrease the likelihood of unintentional residential fires caused by cigarettes by 28%, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers.
The study appeared online February 13, 2014 in the American Journal of Public Health.
“This study is the first rigorous population-based study to evaluate the effectiveness of the fire-safe…
