The eight Baltimore City residents who died in the Cecil Avenue fire May 22 might have had a better chance to survive if the cigarette that started the fire was “fire-safe.”
Cigarettes sold in Baltimore burn longer and hotter than those in states enforcing fire-safe cigarettes, according to a Harvard study commissioned by the Baltimore City Health Department.
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