Manufacturing of fireproof cigarettes is going to be launched in Europe
EU member-states have supported the initiative of Eurocommission to put into production fireproof cigarettes, to reduce the quantity of fires and deaths because of a punky cigarette.
The EU Commissioner on consumption has informed that the executive authority of the EU has offered to permit to sale in EU member-states only cigarettes which will be made from a special noninflammable paper which dies out, if the cigarette is not drawn.
In opinion of the Eurocommission, such legislative initiative will require a couple of years for registration and coming into force.
According to the statistics, in 12 countries of the Western Europe, and also in Norway and Iceland not put out cigarette annually becomes the reason of about 11 thousand fires, deaths of 500 persons and 1, 6 thousand more have burns of a various degrees.