A Slow Burn

Cigarette smokers, increasingly urged to snuff out their smokes, are getting a little help from New York. On Monday the state became the first in the nation to require that cigs be made with "low-ignition" paper so they will extinguish themselves once a smoker stops puffing. The law was designed to save lives; cigarettes are the No. 1 cause of fatal U.S. residential fires, killing about 1,000 people and injuring 3,000 every year. But in unscientific tests by the Daily News, most of the new-fangled cigarettes burned down to their filters, even when no one was inhaling. Sounds like a job for Bill Clinton.
-- Debra Jones