Response From Media
Rebecca Brooks from the Huffington Post, an American news website, wrote an article questioning the wisdom of fire safe cigarettes on 31 March 2010 entitled Fire Safe Cigarette Laws: More Harm than Good. The article asks, "When is it justifiable to penalize many to possibly save a few?... Cooking-related fires are the number one cause of home fires. Should fire retardants be put in vegetable oil? People probably shouldn't eat fried food anyway; maybe some would quit. Irresponsible drivers kill innocent people. Should cars be banned?" ?
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