BROCKTON MA — John Cardoza of Taunton has cut down on smoking with the new fire-safe cigarettes. “They keep going out,” said Cardoza, who has been smoking a pack a day “give or take” for nearly 30 years. The self-extinguishing cigarettes have been on the market for several months leading up to Jan. 1, when Massachusetts became one of more than 20 states to mandate the so-called “fire-safe” smokes. On the very day that the cigarettes were mandated in the state, a fire at a Brockton house was blamed on careless disposal of smoking materials. Full Story
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