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FIRE INVESTIGATION - T.C. Forensic
fire INVESTIGATIONCIGARETTES:HOW OFTEN THEY CAUSE FIRES?Name: Max TawadrousStudent Number: 96111000 Date: May 2000 INTRODUCTION:Many people know that smoking is considered the nation s leading preventablecause of death. But it is less widely known that cigarettes also are the leadingcause of fatal fires, responsible for about a quarter of all tire deaths. Often ,the 1,000 victims each year are not just smokers who drifted off to sleep, butchildren and other innocent fires cause close to 1,000 deaths and 3,000 injuries each year in theunited states, according to the National fire Protection Association (NFPA). Asthe ignition source in fires responsible for over 20% of all fire deaths , cigarettesare the nations largest single cause of such deaths.
EPIDEMIOLOGY: Among all injury profiles, the one for cigarette fire injuries is usually lethal. In fires attributed to dropped cigarettes, there is one death to every four injuries.
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