Why would cooking equipment be responsible for more total fires but smoking smoking responsible for more fire deaths?

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Rhett Jarvis

Chemistry

2 May, 07:16

Why would cooking equipment be responsible for more total fires but smoking smoking responsible for more fire deaths?

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Marques · Answer 1

For the last few decades fires started by any type of smoking material has been the number one leading cause for household fire fatalities. It could just be that people luckily escape in time with cooking equipment fires, and smoking related fires just result in more deaths.