{"id":1894,"date":"2014-03-26T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2014-04-03T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T12:52:04","slug":"dangers-smoking-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/dangers-smoking-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Smoking in Your Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cigarette-ashtray_300\"<\/a><\/strong>by LT. Justin Setser,\u00a0Franklin Fire & Rescue<\/em><\/p>\n

There are plenty of dangers with smoking in your home. The majority of smokers in the\u00a0U.S. know and understand what those dangers are, but there are many unknown dangers that are\u00a0hiding and waiting in the shadows to show their ugly faces. This article will discuss the many\u00a0facts, as well as known and unknown dangers that you need to know about if you are a smoker or\u00a0have a family member that is a smoker.<\/p>\n

In 2011 there were 90,000 smoking related structure fires in the U.S. That is a very small decline from 2010 where there were 90,800 smoking related structure fires. Of those fires, 540\u00a0resulted in civilian deaths. 34% of those deaths were children. That number declined from\u00a02010 where there were 590 civilian deaths related to smoking in homes. 2011 also saw 1,640\u00a0civilian injuries and $621 million in property damages. These numbers might seem high but they\u00a0are declining each year, however there is still work to be done.<\/p>\n

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So where are we at when we catch our homes on fire? 40% of fires are starting in the\u00a0bedroom and 35% are living rooms or family rooms. If we stopped smoking on our bedrooms\u00a0and living rooms, and went outside, we could potentially cut 75% of smoking related structure fires out. With that\u00a0being said, let\u2019s discuss the unknown dangers of smoking in the home. I\u2019m not going to say you\u00a0are less likely to survive a home fire today as to 50 \u2013 60 years ago, but the risk is a lot higher for\u00a0what we have in our homes today. Take a look at what you have in your home. Your TV, couch,\u00a0clothes, drapes, computers, dressers and so on. We have so many plastics, polycarbonates andsynthetics in our homes today fires burn hotter and faster and give off high amounts of\u00a0dangerous gases. The amount of time you have to get out of the home safely is a very short\u00a0window compared to back in the 50\u2019s, 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s where homes were filled with furniture built\u00a0with real wood and cotton. There are studies today showing rooms filled with modern items\u00a0being lit on fire and the room being completely engulfed in fire in three to four minutes,\u00a0compared to a room being filled with older legacy furniture and home materials that when lit\u00a0would flash or become fully involved about 25 to 30 minutes after ignition.<\/p>\n

It is very simple; if you smoke just don\u2019t do it in the house. Take the time and go outside\u00a0to smoke. Here are some other helpful tips to go by:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Put your cigarette butts out in water or sand.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Use deep sturdy ashtrays and don\u2019t put them on the couch or bed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Place ashtrays on a table away from other items that could catch fire.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Don\u2019t smoke if you are on oxygen, period!<\/p>\n

\u2022 Make sure your ashtrays are cold before you discard them.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Don\u2019t empty your ashtray in your trash in your home. Its good practice to have a metal<\/p>\n

bucket outside to empty them into.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Never smoke in bed.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Finally have a working smoke detector in your home. It\u2019s amazing of the number of<\/p>\n

homes without a working smoke detector. You should have a detector on each floor of<\/p>\n

your home and outside and inside of each bedroom.<\/p>\n

You can make a difference.\u00a0 Put it out.\u00a0 All the way.\u00a0 Every time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Resources:<\/p>\n

NFPA Smoking-Material Fire Problem fact sheet and report<\/p>\n

USFA Facts about Smoking and Home Fires<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by LT. Justin Setser,\u00a0Franklin Fire & Rescue There are plenty of dangers with smoking in your home. The majority of smokers in the\u00a0U.S. know and understand what those dangers are, but there are many unknown dangers that are\u00a0hiding and waiting in the shadows to show their ugly faces. This article will discuss the many\u00a0facts, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[159,161,158,160],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tobacoo-free-living","tag-dangers-of-smoking","tag-justin-setser","tag-smoke-free","tag-smoking-in-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}