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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,080
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| PT. C/O "BURN TO EYE" FROM CIGARETTE. DX. CORNEAL ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| SMOKING CIGARETTE OUTSIDE AND FELL ON ICE AND LAC LIP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| DX:PT BURN TO R HAND. PUT CIGARETTE OUT IN "BLACK POWDER". FLASH BURN T O HAND. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2003 | 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: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| RT CORNEAL BURN-HIT LIT END OF A CIGARETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2003 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PATIENT WITH CHEST PAIN AND TIGHTNESS AFTER SMOKING "WEED" AND CIGARETT ES; CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/08/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 24 YEAR OLD MALE BLOOD IN STOOL ABUSE CRACK COCAINE AND TOBACCO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| LIT CIGARETTE TOUCHED EYES DX SUPERFICIAL CORNEAL & CONJUNCTIVAL BURNS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| A CRACK PIPE BROKE IN HER HAND 4 DAYS AGO. DX LEFT HAND LAC / INFECTION SUBSTANCE ABUSE, PT STATES SHE IS PREGNANT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/07/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Spot removers or cleaning fluids |
| PT HAD CLEANING SOLUTION ON HANDS, LIT CIGARRETTE, HANDS CAUGHT ON FIRE BRIEFLY, THERMAL BURN HANDS - FD DID NOT ATTEND |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/04/2003 | Age: 18 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 |
| 18 YO WM - CORNEAL ABRAISION - ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHED L EYE WITH LIT CIGA RETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2003 | Age: 24 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 C/O CIGARETTE ASHES BLOWING INTO HIS EYES DX: FOREIGN BODY LEFT EYE---RESOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 SUSTAINED CORNEAL ABRASION FROM CIGARETTE ASHES IN EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Floors or flooring materials |
| STATES WENT OUTSIDE TO SMOKE, BECAME DIZZY AND NAUSEATED, RETURNED TO D ORM, AWOKE ON FLOOR AND WAS SWEATING. C/O PAIN TO BACK OF HEAD, SYNCOP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/22/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| MVC - RESTRAINED FRONT SEAT PASSENGER - HEMATOMA TO HEAD - SWALLOWED SKOAL DX - CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/19/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| ABUSE MARIJUANA - 17 YOM STATES WAS WALKING AROUND NEIGHBORHOOD, ASKED A SPANISH GUY ON STREET FOR CIGARETTE, SMELLS OF ETOH, POS 4 MARIJUANA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2003 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT.STATES GOT CIGARETT ASH IN RT.EYE FROM FRIENDS CIGARETT. DX; ACUTE R T.EYE F.B. / CORNEAL ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2003 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| 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 |
| PT ACCIDENTLY BURNED ON THE LEFT LOWER ARM WITH A LIT CIGARETTE THERMAL BURN TO ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2003 | Age: 25 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 |
| NAUSEA & VOMITING - WORKIN IN TOBACCO TODAY DX - NOCTINE OVERDOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/30/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CIGARETTE ASHES IN EYE DX: FOREIGN BODY RESOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/27/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CHEST PAIN-@ HOME-SPRAYING *** FOR BUGS-MULTIPLE AEROSOL CANS USED- THE N SMOKING CIGARETTE & DEVELOPED PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| "CIGARETTE INTO L EYE LAST NIGHT" DX: FOREIGN BODY REMOVED / CORNEAL ABRASION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/06/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| RIGHT HAND BURN, PT BURNED HAND WITH A CIGARETTE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| NECK STRAIN-MVA-ON GRAVEL ROAD-DRIVER-REACHING FOR CIGARETTE-RAN OFF THE ROAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| STARTED *** AND *** 10 DAYS AGO, TOOK *** AND SMOKED A C IGARETTE, BEC AME DIZZY,NAUSEATED/ DRUG REACTION TO *** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT TWISTED ANKLE AND FELL FORWARD HITTING HEAD ON ROCK. DID NOT STOP FA LL SECONDARY TO CIGARETTE IN HAND. D: CLOSED HEAD INJURY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/06/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | 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, Matches |
| PT WAS LIGHTING CIGARETTE W/MATCH AND BURNED EYELID. DX: SMALL BURN FIRST DEG EYELIDS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2003 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Neck | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CERVICAL STRAIN-LIGHTING CIGARETTE-DRIVING CAR-LOST CONTROL-IN THE ROAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| 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 |
| STATES "FRIEND" WAS MESSING AROUND AND BURNED "MY LEFT FOREARM WITH A CIGARETTE". DX INFECTED BURN LEFT FOREARM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| DX CORNEAL ABRASION: LIT END OF CIGARETTE TO EYE AT HOME. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/22/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| BURN TO ABDOMEN.PT HAD A CIGARETTE BURN ABDOMEN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PATIENT NOTED A TICK IN HIS LEFT UPPER THIGH, TRIED TO BURN IT OUT WITH A CIGARETTE AND MATCH. DX BURN LT THIGH, FOREIGN BODY, TICK. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/12/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT DX SCALP/FACIAL LACERATIONS - S/P WAS SMPKING A CIGARETTE WHEN HE FELL TO THE GROUND SUSTAINING INJURIES TO THE SCALP AND FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Elbow | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Beds or bedframes |
| CIGARETTE DROPPED IN BED-BURNED ELBOW DX BURN TO ELBOW |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. attendance is not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Pillows |
| 1ST AND 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO LEFT UPPER ARM.PT FELL ASLEEP WHILE SMOKING A CIGARETTE AND WOKE UP AND PILLOW WAS ON FIRE.NO FIRE DEPT.MENTIONED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/12/2003 | Age: 22 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 |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 22 YOF C/O RIGHT EYE PAIN AFTER HAVING A CIGARETTE C HERRY FLICKED INTO EYE LAST NIGHT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/10/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Knee | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 17 Y/O F INJURED R KNEE WHEN STANDING AGAINST CAR AND SMOKING CIGARETTE THEN PASSED OUT. DX; R KNEE ABRASION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2003 | Age: 18 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: Poisoning |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT BECAME SHORT OF BREATH AFTER SMOKING MARIJUANA IN A PIPE AND IN A JO INT. D: SHORTNESS OF BREATH, ACUTE CHEST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2003 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| MVA RESTRAINED DRIVER, FLICKED CIGARETTE OUT WINDOW, HOT PART FLEW BACK INTO CAR SHE LOOKED DOWN, LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE , AIRBAGS DEPLOYED |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 03/31/2003 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| RT HAND BURN-ACCIDENTLY BURNED W/A CIGARETTE BY BOYFRIEND |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2003 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| 23 YOM COMPLAINS OF SHAKINESS AND INABILITY TO SLEEP; ADMITS TO HEAVY T OBACCO USE. POISONING D/T NICOTINE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/06/2003 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| 22 YO FEMALE WAS EXPOSED TO CIGARETTE SMOKE AT CASINO LEFT WITHOUT TREATMENT |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/01/2003 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CORNEAL;PERIORBITAL BURN/21YOM WHILE ON EXCHANGE ST., RAN INTO A LIT CIGARETTE. C/O PAIN IN R EYE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows |
| 19 YOWF WENT OUTSIDE TO SMOKE A CIGARETTE WHEN SHE FELT LIGHTHEADED AND FELL INTO A WINDOW. DX COMPLEX LAC CHIN/LACERATION FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/15/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Hemorrhage |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| HAD TONGUE PIERCED TODAY, TOOK DRAG ON CIGARETTE AND TONGUE STARTED TO BLEED/ BLEEDING TONGUE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| 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 |
| PT SUSTAINED A BURN TO LEFT LOWER ARM WITH A CIGARETTE THERMAL BURN TO ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2003 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 19 YO FEMALE BURNED CHEEK WITH CIGARETTE BURN CHEEK |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/17/2003 | 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: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT C/O OF DIZZINESS AFTER LIGHTING CIGARETTES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/04/2003 | Age: 22 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 |
| PT STATES WAS SMOKING MARIJUANA AND CIGARETTES AND BECAME SHORT OF BREATH, CHEST PAINS (REACTION TO INHALED AGENT) |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
|