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Reevaluation of Experimental Cigarettes Used in the Cigarette Safety Act of 1984. Report of Test (Report of Test FR 3984)

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Author(s)

Richard H. Harris Jr., Magdalena Navarro, Richard G. Gann, K Eberhardt

Abstract

Experimental cigarettes which had been stored for several years in freezers were reevaluated on mockups constructed from the same materials in the original study and statistically analyzed for differences in their ignition propensity.
Citation
OTHER - 3984
Report Number
3984
NIST Pub Series
Other
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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Keywords

cigarettes, ignition, statistics
Buildings and Construction and Fire

Citation

Harris, R. , Navarro, M. , Gann, R. and Eberhardt, K. (1991), Reevaluation of Experimental Cigarettes Used in the Cigarette Safety Act of 1984. Report of Test (Report of Test FR 3984), Other, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=912034 (Accessed October 10, 2025)

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Created May 1, 1991, Updated February 19, 2017
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