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Photos from 2009 conference
Photos from the 2009 conference.

NFPA and Havard School of Public Health

2009 Fire-Safe Cigarettes conference
NFPA's fourth International Conference on Fire-Safe Cigarettes, cosponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, was held October 28-29, 2009, in Norwood, MA. The event brought together more than 50 individuals to talk about ideas on implementation, cigarette fire investigations and new research on Fire-Safe Cigarettes.

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NIST researcher Dr. Richard G. Gann discusses the "1st Plateau of Success" for fire-safe cigarettes.
Paul Martin of the New York Office of Fire Prevention & Control, spoke about the challenges of collecting data on home fires caused by cigarettes.

Mark Redlitz, Assistant State Fire Marshal in Texas, offers tips to states on enforcing fire-safe cigarette legislation.
Andrew Seidenberg of the Harvard School of Public Health presents preliminary findings of a study on public impressions of fire-safe cigarettes.

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