Fire Prevention Tips for Smokers in Mississauga Homes

12/29/2019 (Permalink)

Smoking In Your Mississauga Home Is A Huge Fire Hazard, SERVPRO Wants To Ensure Fire Safety For You And Your Family.

Fire Prevention Tips for Your Mississauga Home if you are a Smoker

While smoking is a bad habit that is terrible for your health, we’re not here to lecture you about that. If you’re going to continue smoking, we’re not going to change your minds. Rather, we’re here to talk to you about fire safety. In all eight countries that report fire statistics, smoking is the leading cause of residential or total fire death in all of them. That’s why practicing proper fire safety as a smoker is critical. Keep reading to find the best fire prevention tip for smokers.

Fire Prevention Tips for Smokers

One of the best fire prevention tips for smokers is to smoke outside. However, that doesn’t work for everyone. If you want to continue to smoke inside, we suggest using the following tips to prevent fire hazards.

• Don’t smoke in bed. Falling asleep with a cigarette in hand is one of the leading causes of residential fires.
• Completely extinguish your cigarette. Small embers from your cigarette could cause a fire. Make sure to put them out well, preferably in sand or water.
• Don’t smoke near oxygen tanks. They are very flammable and can cause more severe fires.
• Try not to smoke when tired. Even if you’re not in bed, it’s possible you could nod off in a chair and drop your cigarette on the floor or furniture.
• Use fire-safe cigarettes. Fire-safe cigarettes will have the letters FSC above the barcode. These cigarettes are made to extinguish more quickly when not being puffed on. Therefore, if you forget about it or fall asleep, they are more likely to go out than catch the house on fire.

If You Cannot Smoke Outside, Smoke Safely Inside

Since many fire deaths are caused by smoking and cigarettes, practicing the above fire prevention tips for smokers can help save your life. It’s most important to properly put out your cigarettes when done with them, never smoke in bed, and avoiding smoking when you are tired.

If you do happen to experience fire damage, SERVPRO of North Mississauga has a fully trained 24 Hour Emergency Response Team to Help.