Conference audio   Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan on the FSC law in Massachusetts.   Robert Howe, VT Assistant State Fire Marshal, on the importance of finding partners in state goverment.   Robert Howe, VT Assistant State Fire Marshal, on the sale of cigarettes on the internet.   Anita Phillips of the OR Office of State Fire Marshal, on consumer complaints on fire-safe cigarettes. Anita Phillips of the OR Office of State Fire Marshal, on the seizure of non-compliant cigarettes.   Paul Martin of the NY Office of Fire Prevention & Control, on the placement of FSC branding on cigarette packs.   Paul Martin of the NY Office of Fire Prevention & Control, on the challenges of gathering FSC data in New York.

The conference brought together fire service and public health officials, insurance and law enforcement officials, and representatives from both Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, the country's leading tobacco manufacturers.

With 35 states having passed fire-safe cigarette laws and 10 states already having the laws in effect, the conference gave attendees an opportunity to discuss implementation efforts and challenges, enforcement, research, coordination of efforts, and possible approaches to measuring the impact of fire-safe cigarettes.

Selected presentations

• Welcome and Introductions (Powerpoint, 4.4 MB)
  Lorraine Carli, NFPA Vice President of Communications
• Measuring the Ignition Strength of Cigarettes: Status and Issues (PDF, 599 KB)
  Richard G. Gann, Ph.D., NIST Senior Research Scientist, Fire Research Division, Building and Fire Research Laboratory
• Fire Standard Compliant Cigarette Observations (Powerpoint, 321 KB)
  Mitch Neuhauser, Senior Counsel – Regulatory Affairs, R.J. Reynolds
• Short Term Effects of Switching to Cigarettes with Reduced Ignition Propensity (Powerpoint, 354 KB)
  Vaughan Rees, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health
• Population-Based Effects: Using Surveillance Data to Evaluate the Law (Powerpoint, 286 KB)
  David Hemenway, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
• Did Fire Risk-related Behaviors, Smoking Behaviors or Exposures Change in Response to the Canadian CIP Regulation ? (Powerpoint, 203 KB)
  Richard O’Connor, PhD, Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Using Fire Data to Measure Effectiveness of Fire-Safe Cigarettes (Powerpoint, 116 KB)
  Marty Aherns, NFPA, Manager, Fire Analysis Service
• Recent Advances in Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Research and Development (Powerpoint, 724 KB)
  Hillel R. Alpert, ScM, Research Associate, Harvard School of Public Health, Tobacco Control Research Program
• Attorney General: Fire Marshal Coordination (Powerpoint, 2.3 MB)
  Nathan Doty, National Association of Attorneys General - Tobacco Project
• Fire Standard Compliant Cigarette Certification Program (Powerpoint, 418 KB)
  Stephen D. Coan, Massachusetts State Fire Marshal
• Fire Standard Compliant (FSC) Cigarettes – Implementation of Law in Vermont (Powerpoint, 90 KB)
  Robert Howe, Assistant State Fire Marshal of Vermont
• Fire Standard Compliant Cigarette Program in Oregon (Powerpoint, 413 KB)
  Anita Phillips, Manager of License and Permit Services, Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal
• Reduced Cigarette Ignition Propensity (RCIP)  (Powerpoint 7 MB)
  Mary Ellen Counts, Philip Morris USA

Photos from the 2008 conference

Stephen D. Coan, Massachusetts State Fire Marshal, talked about efforts to enforce fire-safe cigarette laws through collaborative efforts with neighboring states.		Mary Ellen Counts, Senior Principal Scientist at Philip Morris, spoke about the method used to test fire-safe cigarette compliance in the laboratory.
Patrick Broxterman, Assistant Attorney General in Kansas, reported the results of a break-out group discussion.		Kelly Nicolello, Deputy Director of the Alaska Division of Life & Safety, makes a point during a group discussion.
Richard Gann, Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, spoke on the status and issues involved with measuring the ignition strength of cigarettes.		NFPA President James Shannon (left) and Lorraine Carli (right), NFPA Vice President of Communciations, received "John Joseph Moakley Leadership Awards" for their efforts on the fire-safe cigarette campaign. The awards were presented by Mary Kearney, who lost six members of her family in a cigarette-ignited blaze in 1990.