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Accidental Cigarette Fires Fires can start naturally, intentionally, or accidentally. Although accidental fires are unintended, they usually result from the action or inaction of humans. Cigarette smoking is an action that starts by choice and carries risks for fire accidents.

To have a fire, there must be a heat source, and lit tobacco products are a source for fire ignition. Many forest fires are attributed to a lit cigarette thoughtlessly tossed from a car traveling along dry wooded area roadways.

Cigarettes have the same potential to start a fire in your home. Carelessly disposing lit cigarettes into garbage bins have ignited combustible products and started fires that grow quickly beyond control.

Falling asleep and dropping a lit cigarette onto home furnishings can ignite a silent, smoldering fire that produces toxic gases of little flame or heat. If intoxicated by alcohol or drugs before sleeping, the awareness of smoke and fire is numbed, and the inability to act can be deadly.

Life presents many choices. If you do choose to smoke, please be careful with lit tobacco products.

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