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Author: RevolutionStone

Apr 6th 2014 at 7:05:14 PM

*If you smoke anything from tobacco to other substances, you need to be absolutely careful in regard to smoking materials and debris. Many house fires, wildfires, and car fires result from the improper use of smoking paraphernalia or the improper disposal of burning or smoldering smoking related trash.
** ''DO NOT SMOKE IN BED.'' Many (most) beds and bedding are ''not'' fireproof and do consist of lots of fabric that provides both places for ashes to smolder, and for lit or hot cigarettes or cigars or pipes or such to land on if dropped. If you need to smoke something, get out of and away from bed.
** Use a proper ashtray, or if one doesn't exist, create one with a cup/half full bottle of water for cigarettes and spent joints and the like or a solid, non-ignitable surface (e.g. stone, sand, dirt) on which to rest pipes. If you toss out a cigarette or cigar butt, make sure that it will land on the aforementioned cement, asphalt, dirt, sand, snow, or stone. Same goes for a match you've used to light something - it should never be dropped on an ignitable surface.
** Keep lighters, matches, cigarettes/cigars themselves, and other smoking materials away from kids and pets - both to prevent their using them/becoming poisoned by them and to prevent fires from being started.
** Do not light a match or lighter (or carry a cigarette lit elsewhere) into any situation where explosives or highly explosive petrochemicals such as natural gas, methane, or gasoline may be present.
** Do not throw cigarette butts or cigar butts out of car windows, or smoke around forested or grassy areas in times of high winds. 
** Smoking while driving is in general a bad idea if you are the driver - many car fires and accidents when a driver is scrambling to prevent car fires have resulted from cigarettes accidentally dropped inside a vehicle.
** If you use a device like a vaporizer or e-cigarette that requires charging, make sure you know how to properly charge it, ONLY use the manufacturer's included charger, and heed the time limit for charging.