[pittsburgh gop guy]

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.

[metesky]

Stop! (sob) Please stop! (sob) I... I can't go on. (sob)

[Max McGarrity]

Guess the truth hurts sometimes.

And lies always do. I'm sure SOME fires have been started by careless smokers, there are probably even SOME deaths that are not caused as much by alcohol use as by cigarette smoking, but I have to wonder how that smoker fell asleep on the couch with a cigarette and killed a person upstairs but not himself. Must be magic, much like the numbers anti-smokers create from thin air to justify their demonization of smokers. According to FEMA, alcohol is present in nearly 90% of all smoking-related fires. How come you're not screeching about drinking?

[fellowpatriot]

Banning cigarettes is not going to stop fires any more than banning guns will stop fatal shootings.

Cigarettes don't light themselves!