NIKI SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer

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March 23, 2005
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Lawmakers consider requiring "fire safe" cigarettes

SALEM, Ore. (AP) " Tobacco companies are opposing a bill that would require all cigarettes sold in Oregon be "fire safe" " or self-extinguishing if not being smoked " to reduce cigarette-caused fires.Manufacturers argue that costs will increase and small cigarette companies will be forced out of business if they are subject to different state rules, as opposed to a national standard."I'm here to argue very strongly that we shouldn't have to design and manufacture a product in potentially 50 different ways," Mark Nelson, a lobbyist for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, told the Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday.New York and …

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