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...forces will utilize this information to make the case for damages because they are so antagonistic toward Big Tobacco," says Sanders. "But to make that case, you would have to prove that cigarettes are defective. Many products are dangerous without being defective. The same arguments made about the fire hazard of cigarettes could be made about candles, but we don't hear that very often." Still, it's a sure bet that when, as expected, New York governor George Pataki signs off on the measure, other states will soon follow. Nobody, except for a few politicians in a few tobacco...
...Saturday (including a Washington Post photographer) and another 40 early Sunday. They also conducted raids, confiscating dozens of the metal "sleeping dragons" protesters use to lock their arms to form human chains, and fire marshals declared the warehouse where the demonstrators had set up their command post a fire hazard and shut it down...
Maybe the FDO deems this search a success because they feel they finally were able to catch the students off-guard and therefore really get to the heart of the fire hazard problem by removing as many items as possible...
...Harvard student is looking to die in a fiery blaze, but this eleven-day inspection for items deemed to be fire hazards did nothing to enhance respect for the authority of the Freshmen Dean's Office (FDO). Nor did it provide any kind of long-term fix for the fire hazard problem...
...reasons that students don't respect the fire hazard regulations in the first place is because they don't fully understand the rationale behind banning certain items. If the problem was severe enough that Dean Nathans felt she needed to order a full-out confiscation, then she is probably able to provide a pretty good argument as to why students shouldn't be allowed to have these items in dorm rooms...