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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,814
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/31/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Avulsion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Knives |
| PT AS ATTEMPTING TO SHAVE OFF THE TOP OF A CIGAR WITH A "CIGAR KNIFE" S USTAINED AN AVULSION TO TIP OF LEFT INDEX FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/13/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| ACUTE HEALING BURN L FOREARM/21YOM STS WAS AT PARTY AND GOT BURNED ON A RM ABOUT 1 WEEK AGO. BURNED ON A MARIJUANA PIPE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Adhesives |
| RT HAND BURN.PT WAS PLAYING AROUND WITH RUBBER CEMENT AND FRIEND THREW A CIGARETTE AND HAND FLAMED UP.NO FIRE DEPARTMENT THERE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/28/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| BURN TO LEFT UPPER EYE LID FROM CIGARETTE ASH. BURN EYE LID |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| BURN ON NECK FROM A HOT CIGARETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/14/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT. ACCIDENTLY JABBED CIGARETTE INTO L EYE. DX. THERMAL BURN. L. EYE.# |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| LOWER LEG CT-MVA-DROPPED CIGARETTE-LOST CONTROL OF CAR-UNRESTRAINED DRI VER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/10/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| BURNED IN EYE WITH A CIGAR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT. BUMPED HEAD WHILE WALKING, CAUSING CIGARETTE TO STRIKE L. EYE. DX. CONREAL ABRASION L. EYE. # |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| BURNED TIP OF FINGER WITH A CIGARETTE DX: R 2ND FINGER BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT C/O LFT EYE INJURY. PT WAS HIT IN THE EYE WITH CIGARETTE EMBER. DX C ORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CORNEAL ABRAS;FB R EYELID/22YOM STS EARLIER TODAY AT HOME SOMEONE FLICK ED ASH OF CIGARETTE & SOME GOT IN EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/24/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| SMOKING A CIGARETTE AND AN ASH FLEW IN EYE CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/12/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CIGARETTE BURN TO R FA SEVERAL DAYS AGO DX: 2ND DEGREE BURN R FA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Gasoline |
| PT SMOKING CIGARETTE AROUND GASOLINE, FACE CAUGHT FIRE, THERMAL BURNS FACE, TRANSFERRED - NOT STATED IF FD ATTENDED |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 09/02/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT SUST CORNEAL ABRASION FROM CIGARETTE ASH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 16YOM C/O CHEST PAIN/SWEATING,10/10 ON PAIN SCALE WAXES AND WANES,CURRE NTLY IN REHAB ADMITS TO "SMOKING" PTA,+CIGARETTE/DRUG USE; CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT WAS STANDING OUTSIDE OF HOME SMOKING A CIGARETTE, FELT DIZZY AND FEL L, PT DOES NOT RECALL ANYMORE DETAILS, HAS FACIAL PAIN. DX: FACIAL ABRA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| SMOKED 2 CIGARETTES FROM SOMEONE ELSE GOT S.O.B. AND DIZZY POSS. FROM D RUG IN CIGARETTE DX: DRUG REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/26/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT GOT CIGARETTE ASH IN EYE AT CASINO. DX: FB OD, CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2005 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| DRUG INTOXICATION - 20 YOF FOUND ON BED WITH A GUY, HAD BEEN SMOKING A CIGARETTE LACED WITH MARIJUANA AND PCP, ACTING CONFUSED, BEWILDERED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/13/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 18Y/F EXPOSED TOBACCO SMOKE THIS PM@ER W/SORE THROAT/CONGESTION/COUGHIN G/WATERY EYES/TACTILE FEVER; TOBACCO SMOKE EXPOSURE ANOXIA VS URI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/11/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT TO ER WITH MOM FOR DRUG ABUUSE SMOKING CIGARETTE WITH FORMALDEHYE WITH MENTAL STATUS//SLURRED SPEECH, INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/09/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT ACCID PUT CIGARETTE IN MOUTH BACKWARDS LAST PM. DX: SECOND DEG BURN LOWER LIP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/23/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 21 YEAR OLD MALE WAS HOLDING CIGARETTE AND FLICKED ASH UP LARGE CORNEAL ABRASION RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| DRINKING WITH FRIENDS & PASSED OUT & WOKE WITH CIGAR BURNS ON ARMS FR OM HIM LETTING FRIENDS BURN HIS ARM W/CIGAR BILATERAL UPPER ARM BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| FOREARM BURN FROM A LIT CIGARETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2005 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT EWAS SMOKING CRACK COCAINE WITH A GLASS PIPE DEVELOPED BURNING IN TH ROAT AND CHEST CRACK COCAINE ABUSE |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 06/06/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PATIENT LEFT HOME 3 DAYS AGO, HISTORY OF SEIZURES, HAS NOT TAKEN MEDS, DRANK 1 CUP BEER, SMOKED CIGARETTES; SEIZURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/04/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 25 YOF HAD PAIN IN CHEST WITH TAKING A DEEP BREATH/PLEURITIC CHEST PAIN PROBABLY RELATED TO EXPOSURE OF CAMPFIRE SMOKE & SMOKING CIGARETTES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT SMOKING A CIGAR WHEN HE INHALED A HOT ASH INTO HIS THROAT A LIT "CHE RRY" SUSTAINED A THERMAL BURN TO THROAT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PATIENT BURNED HIS HAND WITH A CIGARETTE. DX-LEFT HAND BURN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| RT FOREARM BURN.PT HAD A CIGARETTE BURN FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/09/2005 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CIGARETTE BLEW IN EYE, BLURRED VISION DX: R CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| DX RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER BURN: CIGARETTE BURN TO FINGER AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/07/2005 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 25 YOM GOT A HOT CIGARETTE ASH IN HIS EYE DX FB EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT BURNED HIS EYE WITH A LIT CIGARETTE; C/O RT EYE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Plastic bags |
| PT IS MR, FOUND C A CHEWABLE TOBACCO, IN PLASTIC BAG, ON THE FLOOR, ING ESTED 1/3-1/2 OF IT SUSTAINED" INGESTION" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/15/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| HAVING CIGARETTE OUTSIDE AT HOME, WIND BLEW, FELT EYE PAIN. DX: CORNEA L ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/10/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Hair dryers |
| LIT A CIGARETTE WHILE BLOWDRYING HAIR AND GOT A FLASH FLAME TO FOREHEAD AND HAND BURNING THEM,NO FIRE DEPT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2005 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 24 YO MALE HAS SEVERE HEADACHE AFTER SMOKING CIGARETTE CEPHALGIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2005 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CORNEAL BURN FROM CIGARETTE ASH WHILE FLICKING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2005 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT BURNED LEFT MIDDLE FINGER WITH CIGARETTE C/O PAIN LEFT MIDDLE FINGER BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/17/2005 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT FLICKED A CIGARETTE AND ASHE FLEW BACK INTO PT'S EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/15/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| LEFT FOREARM BURN. PT BURNED FOREARM WHEN DROPPING A CIGARETTE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/12/2005 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT HAD A CIGARETTE ASH FLY INTO RIGHT EYE FOREIGN BODY EYE |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
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