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Fire Safe Cigarette

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Fire Safe Cigarette
A special cigarette that quickly extinguishes if ignored, which is designed to reduce unintended fires, a common cause of death in smokers.


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The Fire Safe Cigarette Act of 1994: Hearings on H.
In 1990, Congress passed the Fire Safe Cigarette Act of 1990 mandating development of a fire-safe test method.
NIST staff purchased conventional and modified cigarettes from the market and measured the relative ignition propensities of the two cigarette types using laboratory procedures developed by NIST under the Fire Safe Cigarette Act of 1990 and now being considered as an industry standard by the American Society of Testing and Materials.
 
 
 
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