What Are Fire-Safe Cigarettes?

Fire safe cigarettes are the cigarettes which are self-extinguished  when left unattended. Fire safe cigarattes are safe as they prevent fire accidents caused by cigarettes to a great extent.

How Do Fire Safe Cigarettes Work?
Fire Safe cigarettes contain rings at different spots around the cigarettes, which act as speed bumps to the cigarette flame.  These rings around the cigarettes have low permeability material. If the burning end of the cigarette reaches the rings and the smoker does not continue smoking, the cigarette is extinguished. Hence, if a smoker leaves the cigarette unattended for few minutes, the cigarettes is automatically put off preventing fire accident.

Certain measures such as public education, improving the standard of materials of furniture and mattresses have conrolled fire accidents caused due to cigarettes. However, every year about 700 to 1000 people die in fires triggered by cigarettes. Fire safe cigarettes are less likely to cause fires as they snuff themselves out in few minutes.

A cigarette carelessly tossed away without putting out can start a fire. Fire safe cigarettes prevent such accidents. Even though smokers feel fire safe cigarettes have to re-lighted every few minutes, they can surely lessen the number of preventable fire accidents

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