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Australian Cigarette Ingredient Information
In December 2000, a voluntary agreement for the Disclosure of the Ingredients of Cigarettes was signed between the federal government and the three tobacco companies: Philip Morris Limited, British American Tobacco Australia Limited and Imperial Tobacco Australia Limited. The ingredient data is provided to the Department of Health and Ageing on an annual basis and made available on the Department's website. For quick access to the latest tobacco company ingredients reports see: Philip Morris Cigarette Ingredient Information, British American Tobacco Australia Limited Ingredients Report and Imperial Tobacco Australia Limited Ingredients Data.

A Programme Of Work To Compare The Propensity Of Fire Safe Cigarettes And Conventional Cigarettes To Ignite Textile Materials Used In A Domestic Environment (2004)
Report prepared by BTTG Ltd on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; London (ODPML). Comparative cigarette ignition tests on a range of textile and related materials used in domestic furnishing in the UK was undertaken. The findings: "The overall conclusion drawn is that the results of the tests indicate that the chosen RIP cigarettes do reduce the risk of inducing flaming ignition or progressive smouldering in the materials tested, but the risk is clearly not eliminated. Typically 91% of the standard UK cigarette caused flaming or smouldering. With RIP cigarettes, this figure reduced to 69% with one type of cigarette and 34% with the other."

Reduced-Ignition Propensity Cigarettes: A review of policy relevant information (Aug 2004)
Report prepared for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing by Professor Simon Chapman and Antony Balmain on fire safe cigarettes. The report examines policy issues regarding reduced-ignition propensity cigarettes (also referred to as fire safe cigarettes), which are cigarettes that have the reduced propensity to start fires, such as domestic house fires and bush fires. The report provides evidence around the incidence of cigarette-caused fires, the technologies that could reduce the ignition propensity of cigarettes, the policy position adopted by cigarette manufacturers, costs associated with smokers’ materials and cigarette-caused fires and the standards adopted by other jurisdictions.

Tobacco Terminology
Dictionary of tobacco terminology from Physicians for a Smokefree Canada.