From: Daily Echo
Don’t buy non-EU standard cigarettes, warn fire service after pensioner dies in fire
A HOUSEBOUND pensioner died of horrific burns in a fire started by an illicit cigarette, an inquest heard.
Barbara Rankilor was unable to move from her chair which caught fire after she dropped her cigarette into a wicker basket full of magazines and discarded kitchen roll, Dorset Coroner Sheriff Payne was told.
