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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 39 Cigarettes And Fires |
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| | Smoking materials (especially cigarettes) are responsible for 28% of all household |
| | fire deaths. There were 163,000 fires from this cause in 1992, resulting in 1075 |
| | deaths, 3232 injuries, and $318 million in property damage. |
| | Cigarettes, p. 164 |
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| | Fire deaths caused by unattended smoldering cigarettes in upholstery and bedding |
| | total 1500 per year, including 130 children. |
| | Nicotine Addiction, p. 16 |
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| | A December 1992 coal mine explosion in Virginia which killed 8 was caused by |
| | smoking, which is illegal in mines because of danger of flammable methane gas. |
| | New York Times, December 22, 1992 |
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| | One of the world's worst forest fires was caused by a cigarette. It burned 1.3 million |
| | hectares of land in northeast China in 1987, killing 300 people. |
| | UICC Tobacco Control Fact Sheet 5, International Union Against Cancer, 1996 |
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| | In 1996 there were an estimated 417,000 total residential fires (including those |
| | unrelated to smoking) in the United States, resulting in 4035 deaths, almost 19,000 |
| | injuries, and nearly $5 billion in property loss. |
| | JAMA, May 27, 1998, p. 1633 |
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