S06 Smoking Safety.pdf
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This document contains a public education file from the National Fire Protection Association regarding smoking safety and home fire safety. The file provides guidance on safe smoking practices both for cigarettes and electronic cigarettes. It advises smokers to only use fire-safe cigarettes, smoke outside, keep smoking materials away from children and other flammable materials, and ensure cigarettes are fully extinguished before disposal. The file also notes the risk of fire rises with age and that non-smokers can be fatally impacted by fires started by others' smoking materials. Concerning electronic cigarettes, it cautions that fires have occurred during use, charging, and transport, and battery failures have led to explosions, so devices should not be left charging unattended and used cautiously.
The related federal contract opportunity is for VISN 1 Home Oxygen and Durable Medical Equipment Services through the Department of Veterans Affairs. The solicitation number and opportunity name are provided, as well as the contracting agency.
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NFPA Public Education Division • 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02169 Your Source for SAFETY Information www.nfpa.org/education ©NFPA 2016
Smoking and Medical Oxygen Never smoke and never allow anyone to smoke where medical oxygen is used. Medical oxygen can cause materials to ignite more easily and make fires burn at a faster rate than normal. It can make an existing fire burn faster and hotter.
Electronic Cigarettes
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The place where we feel safest — at home — is where most smoking-materials structure fires, deaths, and injuries occur. Smoking materials are the leading cause of fire deaths. Smoking material fires are preventable.
Smoking Safety KKK If you smoke, use only fire-safe cigarettes.
KKK If you smoke, smoke outside. Most deaths result from fires that started in living rooms, family rooms and dens or in bedrooms.
KKK Keep cigarettes, lighters, matches, and other smoking materials up high out of the reach of children, in a locked cabinet.
Put It Out KKK Use a deep, sturdy ashtray. Place it away from anything that can burn.
KKK Do not discard cigarettes in vegetation such as mulch, potted plants or landscaping, peat moss, dried grasses, leaves or other things that could ignite easily.
KKK Before you throw away butts and ashes, make sure they are out, and dousing in water or sand is the best way to do that.
• The risk of dying in a home structure fire caused by smoking materials rises with age. • One out of four fatal victims of smoking-material fires is not the smoker whose cigarette started the fire.
FACTS
Fires have occurred while e-cigarettes were being used, the battery was being charged, or the device was being transported. Battery failures have led to small explosions.
Never leave charging e-cigarettes unattended.
E-cigarettes should be used with caution.
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