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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It didn't occur to me until some time after I bought it, but this is the direct ancestor of the disposable plastic cigarette lighter. Apart from being made of silver, it works in nearly the same way.

There’s making stuff out of trash, and then there’s mind-blowing stuff like this: a DeLorean built from four disposable cigarette lighters and various other bits and bobs like wire sheathing and ...

A fire, apparently started when a disposable cigarette lighter was dropped into a pocket of a coat hanging on a wooden rack, caused extensive damage to the living room of a Taneytown house yesterday.

FIRST, there was the disposable cigarette lighter, then the single-use camera – now comes the talk-and-toss cellular phone. Made almost entirely of paper, the palm-sized contraption may hit ...

A girl of two died in a fire started by a young boy playing unsupervised with a cigarette lighter. Libby-Jayne Hornsby and the boy were being looked after by other boys aged 12 and 15 while her mother ...

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 ...