Smoking Materials

Smoking materials started an average of 17,900 smoking-material home structure fires per year during 2007-2011. These fires caused an average of 580 deaths, 1,280 injuries and $509 million in direct property damage per year.
Most deaths in home smoking-material fires were caused by fires that started in bedrooms (40%) or living rooms, family rooms or dens (35%).
Sleep was a factor in roughly one-third of the home smoking material fire deaths.
Possible alcohol impairment was a factor in one in five (19%) of home smoking fire deaths.
One out of four fatal victims of smoking-material fires is not the smoker whose cigarettes started the fire.