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Reports

Read our collection of reports about the fire-safe cigarette issue.

			NFPA's Smoking-Material Fire Problem report Analysis of fires involving smoking materials (i.e., tobacco products), including recent trends, what materials are most often ignited, and victim patterns. John R. Hall, Jr., NFPA, March 2010. (PDF, 257 KB).

			Regulating Cigarettes for Fire Safety A Law Synopsis by the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium by Hillel R. Alpert, an applied policy research scientist with the Tobacco Control Research Program, Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health. May 2007 (PDF, 2 MB).

			USFA and NFPA Report on Behavioral Mitigation of Smoking Fires Acting United States Fire Administrator Charlie Dickinson and NFPA President and Chief Executive Officer James Shannon announce the completion of a report on Behavioral Mitigation of Smoking Fires (PDF, 5 MB), February 2006. The report is the result of a USFA partnership with NFPA to develop sound, research-based recommendations for behavioral mitigation strategies to reduce smoking fire fatalities in the United States.

			Fire Safer Cigarettes: Report from the Harvard School of Public Health The Effect of the New York State Cigarette Fire Safety Standard on Ignition Propensity, Smoke Toxicity, and the Consumer Market, January 24, 2005 (PDF, 434 KB). This landmark study concludes that fire-safe cigarettes sold in New York are less likely to ignite fires than the same brands sold in other states, that the majority of smoke toxic compounds tested were not different between New York and other brands, have had no effect on consumer purchases of cigarettes, and that the state has experienced no decline in cigarette sales or excise tax payments since the law went into effect. Also see: On June 12, 2006, Dr. Greg Connolly from the Harvard School of Public Health, issued a memo addressing misrepresentations by the tobacco industry and "smokers rights" organizations (PDF, 22 KB) of research on fire-safe cigarettes.

			Fiscal Impact of Lower Ignition Strength Cigarettes on New Hampshire State Tobacco Tax Revenues Addendum This addendum analyzes New York sales data through December 2005 to determine impacts on tobacco tax revenue from the introduction of lower ignition strength cigarettes (PDF, 347 KB)

			Residential Smoking Fires and Casualties U.S. Fire Administration/National Fire Data Center, June 2005 (PDF, 136 KB)

			The case for fire-safe cigarettes made through industry This research paper examines the extensive research undertaken by the tobacco industry over the past 25 years toward development of a fire safe cigarette, October 2002 (PDF, 220 KB)

			Relative Ignition Propensity of Test Market Cigarettes A paper that examines research undertaken by the tobacco industry over the past 25 years toward development of a fire safe cigarette, October 2002, (PDF, 220 KB)

			Fabrics for Testing the Ignition Propensity of Cigarettes A NIST study on whether cigarettes made with a slower buring paper would reduce the risk, if dropped or discarded, of starting a fire, January 2001 (PDF, 2.7 MB)

			Cigarette Fire Incident Study - PART 1 Prepared for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission by NFPA and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., August 1993 (PDF, 4.5 MB)

			Cigarette Fire Incident Study - PART 2 Prepared for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission by NFPA and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., August 1993 (PDF, 3.6 MB)

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			Cigarettes Certified by Manufacturers as of January 30, 2006 Issued by the NY State Department of State Office of Fire Prevention and Control