AN EXPLODING CIGARETTE BLEW OUT 6 TEETH and left an injury requiring 51 stitches in an Indonesian man’s mouth. Andi Susanto, 31, said that the cigarette had blown up in his mouth while he was riding a motorcycle on his way to work. “It was my third cigarette,” he said from his hospital bed.
The makers of the cigarette and Indonesia’s largest tobacco company, PT Nojorono Tobacco has reached an amicable settlement with Susanto by paying him $535 in compensation and paying all of his medical expenses.
“The cause of the explosion is unknown… we checked the motorcyle’s gas tank to see if there was possibly a leakage of gasoline fumes that may have led to the incident, but we have found nothing yet,” Bekasi Police chief Sr. Comr. Herry Wibowo told the press. A spokesman for Clas Mild cigarettes, the brand Mr Susanto had been smoking, said there were no plans for a recall.
“We are communicating with the police and still waiting on the forensic laboratory tests,” Iwan Sulistyo told the Jakarta Globe. “We do not put any strange materials in the cigarettes, so we think that this is a weird case. This is the first time for us.”
Collated from several news sources.
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