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Reduced ignition propensity (RIP)

A cigarette design standard, adopted in the US (2010), EU (2011), Australia (2010), and Canada (2005), requiring cigarettes to self-extinguish when placed on a test substrate, reducing smouldering-material ignition risk.

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