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And as a former firefighter, I can say that I worked on several jobs - both fatal and nonfatal, where cigarettes were the cause.

I resent that. What else were the issue besides a cigarette? Was the person drunk? On drugs? Old and feeble? A person smoking a cigarette in a house just doesn't throw it on the carpet and walk away.

There has to be more to the circumstance for you to say this. You can't just lump it all in "oh it was a smoker."

Guess the truth hurts sometimes.

Several fires where the person fell asleep with a lit cig. One fatal fire where that happened. And the person that was killed was not the smoker - but was sleeping upstairs and the smoker fell asleep on the living room couch. Many non-fatal fires where the person falls asleep with lit cig.

Another fatal fire where the mom thought the cig was out in the ashtray. She went to a neighbor's house 2 doors down (50 feet away). Came back less than 15 minutes later and a fire was going. Kid (two year old)was sleeping upstairs. Dead from smoke inhalation. Now you can say the mom was stupid - no doubt - but a kid is still dead. I carried his lifeless body to the ems crew after two other firefighters found him and handed down the ladder to me.