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NNSW: What have you got to lose?

National Non-Smoking Week (NNSW) is one of the longest running and most important events in Canada’s ongoing public education efforts regarding the consequences of tobacco use. Themes are chosen to focus media and public attention on particular concerns related to tobacco use. The theme for 2009 is “What have you got to lose?”

Additional Information from the Tobacco Control Reference Catalogue

Ecological level analysis of the relationship between smoking and residential-fire mortality
Diekman, S.T.; Ballesteros, M.F.; Berger, L.R.; Caraballo, R.S.; Kegler, S.R.
Injury Prevention. 14(4): 228-231. August 2008. [Article]
This ecological study quantified the association between tobacco smoking and residential-fire mortality, while controlling for selected socioeconomic factors. A 1% decrease in smoking corresponded to a modeled 7% decrease in residential-fire mortality rates.

Fire Marshal’s Public Fire Safety Council
http://www.firesafetycouncil.com/
For National Non Smoking Week 2009, the Fire Marshal’s Public Fire Safety Council joined together with the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control to launch a smoking-related fire deaths awareness campaign. Smoking is the main cause of preventable home fire deaths in Canada.

National Non-Smoking Week
http://nnsw.ca
National Non-Smoking Week (NNSW) has been observed during the third week in January for more than thirty years. NNSW activities are coordinated by the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control and organized around a central theme.

Prevalence of behaviors related to cigarette-caused fires : a survey of Ontario smokers O'Connor, Richard J.; Bauer, J. E.; Giovino, G. A.; Hammond, D.; Hyland, A.; Fong, G. T.; Cummings, K. M.
Injury Prevention. 13(4): 237-242. Août 2007. [Article]
Random digit-dialed (RDD) telephone survey of 596 adult smokers in Ontario, to identify the prevalence and correlates of behaviours related to the risk of cigarette-caused fires. Results suggest that smokers in Ontario frequently engage in behaviours that place them at increased risk of cigarette fires. Highlights the importance of ignition propensity regulations and educa tional campaigns in discouraging smoking while in bed and leaving cigarettes unattended.

Residential smoking fires and casualties
United States Fire Administration. National Fire Data Center; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Emmitsburg, Md.: Dept. of Homeland Security, June 2005. [Report]
Although smoking caused only 4% of residential fires in 2002, fires caused by smoking are 4 times more likely to be fatal, twice as likely to cause injury, and losses tend to be higher than other types of fires. More attention needs to be paid to fire prevention education and safer cigarettes.

The smoking-material fire problem
Hall, John Raymond; National Fire Protection Association. Fire Analysis and Research Division.
Quincy, Mass.: National Fire Protection Association, November 2007. [Report]
Fires started by smoking materials - Sidebar from the Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes - Victim patterns for smoking material fires - Appendix A: how national estimates statistics are calculated.