Research Catalog

Title

Technical Study Group Cigarette Safety Act of 1984.

Author

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Technical Study Group on Cigarette and Little Cigar Fire Safety. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88041914

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Technical Study Group on Cigarette and Little Cigar Fire Safety, Consumer Product Safety Commission, [1987-

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Details

Additional Authors

Krasny, John F.

Description

v. : ill.; 28 cm.

Alternative Title

• Cigarette ignition of soft furnishings.
• Economic sector data for modeling the impact of less ignition-prone cigarettes.
• Effect of cigarette characteristics on the ignition of soft furnishings.
• Expected changes in fire damages from reducing cigarette ignition propensity.
• Feasibility study of obtaining field data on cigarette-ignited fires.
• Improving the fire safety of cigarettes.
• Relative propensity of selected commercial cigarettes to ignite soft furnishings mockups.
• Tests for smoldering ignition of chairs and reduced-scale mock-ups by various cigarettes.

Subjects

• Upholstery > Fire testing > United States
• Cigarette industry > United States
• Upholstered furniture > Flammability > United States
• Cigarettes > Testing
• Upholstered furniture > United States > Combustion

Note

• Description based on [no.] 2.
• Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche.
• "June 1987"--[No.] 2.
• "October 1987"--[No.] 3-8.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

[no.] 1. Relative propensity of selected commercial cigarettes to ignite soft furnishings mockups -- [no.] 2. Cigarette ignition of soft furnishings: a literature review with commentary / John F. Krasny -- [no. 3]. The effect of cigarette characteristics on the ignition of soft furnishings / Richard G. Gann ... [et al.] -- [no. 4]. Improving the fire safety of cigarettes: an economic impact analysis / Rosalie T. Ruegg ... [et al.] -- [no.] 5. Expected changes in fire damages from reducing cigarette ignition propensity / John R. Hall, Jr. -- [no.] 6. Economic sector data for modeling the impact of less ignition-prone cigarettes / Daniel A. Sumner ... [et al.] -- [no.] 7. Tests for smoldering ignition of chairs and reduced-scale mock-ups by various cigarettes / Gordon H. Damant, John A. McCormack, Bernadette Claire -- [no.] 8. Feasibility study of obtaining field data on cigarette-ignited fires / Beatrice Harwood, Linda Fansler.

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