Fire Safe Cigarettes :: About fire-safe cigarettes

About fire-safe cigarettes

Fire-safe cigarettes are a proven, practical, and effective way to eliminate the risk of cigarette-ignited fires. The use of cigarettes that have a reduced propensity to burn when left unattended will help prevent tens of thousands of cigarette-ignited fires each year.

Read what Philip Morris USA says about fire-safe cigarettes, ingredients, and the use of EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion-based adhesive).
See what R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company says about the ingredients in fire-safe cigarettes.

In this Section:

			What is a fire-safe cigarette? Learn how this technology works					Myths vs. realities Learn the truth about fire-safe cigarettes

			The smoking-material fire problem Fires caused by cigarettes kill between 700 and 900 people per year.					History The concept of fire-safe cigarettes goes back more than 70 years.

			Fast facts Quick statistics about cigarette-caused fires.