Safety Trivia
According to a journal article cited today by Crikey,
Ignition of furnishings by smoking materials in houses is by far the most common cause of death by fire.
I've seen dozens or hundreds of public safety advertisements about fire safety, smoke detectors, etc, and never seen this mentioned. Or, from the other direction, why not print it on cigarette packages?
Laugesen et. al. continue
For the last 25 years at least, manufacturers have resisted introducing fire retardent (...) cigarettes. The tobacco industry made payments to scores of fire organisations in the 1990s to dampen calls for a fire safe product.
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