A Terrebonne Parish woman has filed a federal lawsuit against a New Jersey-based company after alleging she suffered third-degree burns when a disposable cigarette lighter exploded in her hand last ...

A Hacienda Heights company has agreed to recall 13 million disposable cigarette lighters because of ineffective childproof mechanisms, federal safety regulators said Tuesday. The Consumer Product ...

CHILDREN playing with a disposable cigarette lighter caused a car fire which claimed the life of a two-year-old Mt Gambier girl, fire authorities say. Investigator Phil Kilsby said the car was ...

Scripto is going small with its new line of sparkwheel, disposable cigarette lighters called Tiny Lite. The compact size allows the lighters to fit into pockets and handbags, according to the ...

The Ministry for Competitiveness and Communications, through the Consumer and Industrial Goods Directorate of the Malta Standards Authority, has drafted a set of regulations concerning the safety of ...

Steps to make disposable cigarette lighters safer, especially when they get into the hands of children, are being studied by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the head of a congressional ...

WASHINGTON - A New Jersey company is recalling about 294,000 disposable cigarette lighters because they lack federally required child-resistant mechanisms. Vaid Enterprises of Jersey City, N.J., is ...

April 17, 2001 -- BODA-BING, GIL, HAPPY and WAX. Those are names stamped on the metal sides of cigarette lighters recalled today because of defective child-restraint mechanisms. "Tragically, there was ...

The confirmation follows another blaze today involving a lighter. A man suffered minor burns to his hands while attempting to extinguish a bedroom fire caused when a lighter ignited bed covers at ...