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AS 4830—2007

Australian Standard®

propensity of cigarettes
Determination of the extinction
AS 4830—2007
 This Australian Standard® was prepared by Committee CS-102, Reduced Fire Risk
Cigarettes. It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on
19 February 2007.
This Standard was published on 5 March 2007.

The following are represented on Committee CS-102:

• Australasian Fire Authorities Council

• Australian Consumers’ Association
• CSIRO & Infrastructure Technology
• Fire Protection Association Australia
• Furntech
•
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Insurance Council of Australia

• New South Wales Department of Health
• Tobacco Product Manufacturing Interests
• The University of Sydney

This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 06483.

Standards Australia wishes to acknowledge the participation of the expert individuals that
contributed to the development of this Standard through their representation on the
Committee and through public comment period.

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Determination of the extinction

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Published by Standards Australia, GPO Box 476, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia
ISBN 0 7337 8098 9
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PREFACE
This Standard was prepared by Standards Australia Committee CS-102, Reduced Fire Risk
Cigarettes. This Standard is based on ASTM E2187-04, Standard test method for measuring
the ignition strength of cigarettes. The ASTM method was the result of over 10 years work
and is reported to have been validated by laboratories in the US, but is yet to be validated in
Australia. Although no laboratory test is a perfect predictor of the complex and varied
causes of fires, this test method has been developed to determine extinction propensity of
cigarettes.
The terms ‘normative’ and ‘informative’ have been used in this Standard to define the
application of the appendix to which they apply. A ‘normative’ appendix is an integral part
of a Standard, whereas an ‘informative’ appendix is only for information and guidance.
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CONTENTS

Page

FOREWORD.............................................................................................................................. 4
1 SCOPE........................................................................................................................ 5
2 APPLICATION .......................................................................................................... 5
3 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS.................................................................................. 5
4 DEFINITIONS............................................................................................................ 5
5 PRINCIPLE ................................................................................................................ 5
6 HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OPERATORS.............................................................. 6
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7 APPARATUS ............................................................................................................. 6
8 CALIBRATION AND STANDARDIZATION .......................................................... 8
9 TEST SPECIMENS AND STANDARD SUBSTRATE ASSEMBLIES ................... 10
10 CONDITIONING ..................................................................................................... 11
11 PROCEDURE........................................................................................................... 11
12 TEST REPORT......................................................................................................... 13

APPENDICES
A PROCEDURE FOR SELECTION OF SUBSTRATE ASSEMBLIES
FOR TESTING.......................................................................................................... 14
B REPEATABILITY AND REPRODUCIBIITY.......................................................... 16
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FOREWORD
A common initiating event in fatal fires in Australia is the dropping of a lit cigarette onto a
bed or piece of upholstered furniture. The cigarette coal heats the furnishing materials to
the point where smouldering combustion begins, perhaps followed by a transition to
flaming combustion. According to statistics provided by the National Coroner’s Information
System, carelessly handled cigarettes caused approximately 12% of the fire deaths in
Australia from 2000 to 2002.
Since limiting the frequency of ignitions is a principal approach to reducing fire loss, it is
desirable to establish a test method for the propensity of a cigarette to remain lit and
therefore potentially capable of igniting soft furnishings. This test method uses standard
substrates to determine the extent to which, as the substrate draws heat from the cigarette,
the cigarette combustion remains strong enough to continue smouldering and thus
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potentially capable of initiating a fire.

The test methods ASTM E1352, Test method for cigarette ignition resistance of mock-up
upholstered furniture assemblies and ASTM E1353, Test method for cigarette ignition
resistance of components of upholstered furniture have been developed to evaluate the
susceptibility of upholstered furniture mock-ups and components to ignition by cigarettes.
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STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

Australian Standard
Determination of the extinction propensity of cigarettes

1 SCOPE
This Standard provides a measure of the capability of a machine-made cigarette, positioned
on a standard substrate, as specified in Appendix A, to generate sufficient heat to continue
burning and thus potentially cause ignition.
This method is applicable to machine-made cigarettes that burn along the length of a
tobacco column including filtered and unfiltered machine-made cigarettes.
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This method does not apply to cigars, cigarillos, loose tobacco or other tobacco products.

2 APPLICATION
This Standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with
its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this Standard to establish appropriate safety and
health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. For
specific hazard statements, see Clause 6.

3 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS
The following documents are referenced in this Standard:
AS
2484 Fire—Glossary of terms
2484.1 Part 1: Fire tests
ASTM
E691 Standard practice for conducting an interlaboratory study to determine the
precision of a test method

4 DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this Standard, the definitions in AS 2484.1 and those below apply:
4.1 Full-length burn (n)
The outcome of a determination in which the specimen burns to or past the front plane of
the tipping paper, which covers the filter and perhaps a short section of the tobacco column
in a filter tip specimen, or past the tips of the metal pins (see Clause 7.5) if the cigarette
specimen has no filter.
4.2 Test specimens
Cigarette samples for testing.
4.3 Substrate
Horizontal surface consisting of layers of filter paper on which the test is carried out.

5 PRINCIPLE
This test enables comparison of the extinction propensity of different cigarette designs in
standard laboratory conditions.

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