Injuries Due to Smoking
For as long as NFPA has had detailed statistics, we have known that the #1 cause of fatal fires is cigarettes. In 2002, the latest year for which we have statistics, the death toll in smoking fires in structures was 760
One out of four fatal victims of cigarette fires is not the smoker whose cigarette started the fire. That is roughly 200 innocent bystanders a year, including roughly 30 children a year, who lose their lives to fires started by someone else’s cigarettes.
Cigarettes + table clothes = fire hazards
Ventilations in Restaurants
Don't be fooled! No ventilation system has ever been designed that can protect the public from the death and disease caused by exposure to secondhand smoke.
In July 2006, U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona declared that the debate is over about the science of secondhand smoke, concluding that separating smokers from nonsmokers, air cleaning technologies, and ventilating buildings cannot eliminate secondhand smoke exposure, stating that conventional air cleaning systems cannot remove all the poisons, toxins, gases, and particles found in secondhand smoke. Additionally, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems can distribute secondhand smoke throughout a building.
