Camping and Smoking

Smoke camping -

You feel right at home beside a campfire roasting marshmallows for S'mores and sleeping in a tent at night. If it is something you enjoy, then probably most of your vacations are built around camping. You feel relaxed as the rest of the world continues by at its typical break neck pace and you're enjoying the slow ease of nature.

Well going camping can produce a lot of hazards. You have to worry about bears and snakes. You have to worry about poison ivy. And there's a whole new set of worries if you're a smoker. If you're a smoker, then you have to worry about fires. Most people don't realize that most forest and home fires are caused by careless smokers that discard a still lit cigarette butt into a flammable area. During the summer and in dry spells, a cigarette can be a definite fire hazard. The leaves and the grass may be dead from lack of water and the blistering heat. Dead plants will catch fire a lot easier than live ones, so you have to be especially careful. Some national and state parks ban setting campfires because of the potential dangers that it can cause. This is why most parks have designated pits for building fires. But when you're smoking, there's no designated area for your little fire. The leaves begin to burn slowly. If there's any brush around, then the fire could have the potential to spread very quickly.

Don't endanger them by bringing your nasty cigarette habit into the wild.