The Second International Conference on Fire "Safer" Cigarettes was held at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA, December 11-12, 2006. 

The conference was sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and the American Legacy Foundation. It was held to promote coordination among states and countries on testing of cigarettes for compliance on RIP (reduced-ignition propensity) design, jurisdictional efforts to measure the population impact of RIP cigarettes on fire incidence and fire deaths, and to provide the tools and scientific evidence and develop strategies to achieve RIP protection in other states and nations.

Download the official report from the 2005 conference (PDF, 434 KB) which looked at the effect of the New York State Cigarette Fire Safety Standard on ignition propensity, smoke toxicity, and the consumer market.

2006 Conference photos

Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, and Gregory N. Connolly, DMD, MPH, of the Harvard School of Public Health		Richard Gann, Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, spoke on the results of measuring RIP cigarettes.
George Michehl, executive director of the Illinois Fire Inspectors Association, presented a plaque of appreciation to NFPA President James M. Shannon.		James Smith, New South Wales Fire Brigade, Sydney, Australia, spoke of his country's efforts to enact fire-safe cigarette legislation.
Dr. Jurgen Vogelgesang, Principal Administrator of the European Commission (Directorate - General Health and Consumer Protection) attended the conference via satellite to talk about RIP cigarette initiatives in the European Union.		John Mueller of the New York Office of Fire Prevention and Control, and Mary Kearney, who lost six members of her family in a cigarette-ignited blaze in 1990. The Massachusetts fire-safe cigarette law was named for the Kearney family.
On the second day of the conference, participants were divided into two discussion groups to develop recommendations for next steps.		One group focused on legislative and advocacy issues; the other on testing and technology of RIP cigarettes.