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Can A Cigarette Cause A Forest Fire?

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Can A Cigarette Cause A Forest Fire? The number of wildfires caused by cigarettes has fallen drastically. “Since 1980, smoking-caused wildfires fell by 90 percent,” says U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientist Jeffrey Prestemon. Can cigarettes start wildfires? Arson, equipment fires and burning debris are among the most common ways for fires to

Can Cigarettes Start Wildfires?

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Can Cigarettes Start Wildfires? Arson, equipment fires and burning debris are among the most common ways for fires to start in lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. While smoldering cigarettes are one of the most common triggers of human-caused wildfires, the amount of fires caused by cigarettes has decreased over the past several years.