10/17/2026
Did you know that smoking is the number one cause of fatal home fires in Ontario? To prevent smoking fires:
🚬 Be alert when smoking – you will not be alert if you are sleepy or have consumed alcohol, drugs or medicine that makes you drowsy.
🚬 Encourage smokers to smoke outside, including outside the garage.
🚬 Check behind chair and sofa cushions for cigarette butts before going to bed if people have been smoking in your home.
🚬 Empty ashes into a metal container, not a garbage can, and keep it outside.
🚬 Do not extinguish ci******es in plant pots, which may contain a mixture of peat moss, shredded wood and bark that can easily ignite.
