Each year between 700 and 900 people die from cigarette related fires. Well there is someone trying to do something about it. The Fire Safe Cigarette Coalition is trying to get all cigarette manufacturers to adopt simple strategies for making cigarettes more fire safe. One thing that is done is to put "speed bumps" in the cigarette that help the cigarette to stop burning if it is left unattended for a period of time.
The company I work for responded last year to an apartment in an apartment building where someone had fallen asleep while smoking. The elderly resident did survive because a fire sprinkler went off over her bed, but the damage to her room and property would have been nil if she had a fire safe cigarette.
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