Call for Safer Cigarettes

This just in—cigarettes are dangerous. They might even kill us:

The European Commissions is expected to propose before the end of this year that all cigarettes sold across the EU should be self-extinguishing to help prevent smoke-related domestic fires that kill around 2,000 Europeans each year.

And if you think it’s only another example of madness created by overpaid Brussels bureaucrats with too much time on their well-manicured hands, think again:

New York State in the US was the first place to legislate on fire-safe cigarettes, while Canada and eight other US states have already followed suit. Australia is considering passing a similar law

Thank God we live in a nanny-state culture! What would we do without it? (We could buy better ashtrays or stop smoking altogether, but that stinks of effort. Nah, let the legislators have their fun.)