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Where there's smoke, there's fire
Simon Chapman
Department of
Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney [A27], NSW
2006, Australia, simonc@pub.health.usyd.edu.au
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scene is familiar to every driver. You're driving along at night and
suddenly the driver in front discards a cigarette butt. The sparks
startle as the butt glances across the road. It's such a common sight,
it barely rates a mention. But every now and then one of these butts
settles, still glowing, in roadside debris and starts a fire. Fire
authorities have deadpan ledger entries in their annual reports about
this. For example, in 1992 there were 1525 fires in the state of New
South Wales, Australia caused by discarded smoking materials
including
623 bush and grass fires and 360 fires in buildings.
Coronial and other government inquiries following the depressingly
common summer month bush fires in Australia present an unprecedented
opportunity for some serious action on the role of cigarettes in
starting fires. In both the community rage, and the more considered
thinking that choruses through the marathon radio talkback
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