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 ...

Nurse Diane Denton had seen one too many children suffering from burns they received in fires started with cigarette lighters, so she wrote the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission asking that it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.