Fires started by lighted tobacco products, principally cigarettes,
constitute the leading cause of residential fire deaths. The U.S.
Fire Administration (USFA) has partnered with the National Fire
Protection Association (NFPA) "to research what types of behaviors
cause smoking fire fatalities and develop sound recommendations for
behavioral mitigation strategies to reduce smoking fire fatalities
in the United States...." The scope of the study included all
lighted tobacco products, but cigarettes account for nearly all
consumption and fires. Lighting implements such as matches and
lighters were not included. Most fires involving these objects
occur during incendiarism or fireplay. An extensive literature
review on behaviors related to smoking, or to fires or fatalities
due to smoking-material fires was conducted to provide the broadest
possible fact base for recommendations. In addition, data were
collected from: analysis of the 1980 to 2001 U.S. smoking-material
fire problem, using The National Fire Incident Reporting System
(NFIRS) national estimates; analysis of several hundred 1997 to
1998 fatal smoking-material fires, not necessarily representative
but documented in greater detail in NFPA's major fires database
called the Fire Incident Data Organization (FIDO); analysis of
other risk factors correlated with smoking, based on the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk
Factor database for 2002.
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