Relative Ignition Propensity of Test Market Cigarettes.
Relative Ignition Propensity of Test Market Cigarettes.
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Gann, R. G.; Steckler, K. D.; Ruitberg, S.; Guthrie, W.
F.; Levenson, M. S.
NIST TN 1436; 34 p. January 2001.
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Order number: PB2001-105082
Keywords:
cigarettes; ignition
Abstract:
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff requested that
the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) conduct tests to determine whether a test market
cigarette made with a slower burning paper would reduce
the risk that such a cigarette, if dropped or discarded,
would start a fire. While NIST does not routinely
perform product tests, it agreed to do so in this case,
recognizing the important role of the FTC in assuring
the public of the veracity of product claims and the
high potential for less fire-prone cigarettes to reduce
fire deaths and injuries. NIST staff purchased
conventional and modified cigarettes from the test
market and measured the relative ignition propensities
of the two cigarette types using the Mock-up Ignition
Test Method and the Cigarette Extinction Test Method,
both developed under the Fire Safe Cigarette Act of
1990. Analysis of the test data shows that the modified
cigarette has a lower relative ignition propensity than
the conventional cigarette.
