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SC House approves bill calling for fire-safe cigarettes 

Tobacco companies would have to ensure cigarettes meet fire safety standards under legislation that has won key approval in the South Carolina House.

Such cigarettes use slow-burning paper and go out when they aren't being puffed.

South Carolina is one of 12 states acting on such legislation this year. R.J. Reynolds has said its cigarettes would meet the standards by 2009. Philip Morris has said it would like a uniform federal law

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