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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,944
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/23/2004 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | 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 YOM C/O RIGHT EYE PAIN AFTER OPENING A WINDOW OF A CAR WHILE RIDING AND CIGARETTE ASH BLOWING INTO HIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/11/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| POST SMOKING A CIGARETTE FELL HIT HEAD LACERATION VERTEX 5 CM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/27/2004 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| LEFT BREAST BURN-FELL ASLEEP WITH A CIGARETTE AND IT BURNED LEFT BREAST . |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/18/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| 23 YOM SPLASHED CIGARETTE BUTTS IN WATER IN RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/12/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| GOT HIT ON ARM WITH CIGARETTE DX: BURN TO ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2004 | 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 |
| HIT ON ARM WITH CIGARETTE DX: BURN TO ARM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/07/2004 | Age: 16 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 |
| PATIENT HAD CONFLICT WITH PARENTS, POLICE TOOK PT AND STATED HE DRANK 24 OZ OF BEER AND SMOKED BLACK AND MILD CIGARS; INTOXICATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/06/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT WITH ASES TO EYE WHILE SMOKING CIGARETTE EYE TEARING AND RED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/03/2004 | Age: 17 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 |
| MEDICATION ADVERSE EFFECT-DEVELOPED PALPITATIONS FROM *** & SMOKING-@ H OME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/23/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| WENT OUT IN YARD TO HAVE A CIGARETTE WHEN FELT SHARP PAIN IN STOMACH (H ADN T EATEN ALL DAY) LIGHTHEADED PASSED OUT DX DEHYDRATION SYNCOPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/19/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Arm | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| AT NIGHT CLUB WHEN ACCID BURNED ON R FOREARM W CIGARETTENOW ARM IS RED AND SWOLLEN DX R ARM CELLULITIS CIGARETTE BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/16/2004 | Age: 17 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 |
| BURN EYE - PATIENT REPORTS HOT CIGARETTE ASH FLEW INTO LEFT EYE BURNING EYE - LEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN BY MD |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 10/13/2004 | Age: 25 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 |
| DISORIENTED, SAYS HIT HER HEAD, ABRASIONS ON FACE, STATES CAN'T HEAR. OPIATE AND BENZO ABUSE, CIGARETTE BURN RT SHOULDER AND RT FACIAL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Day wear |
| DROPPED A CIGARETTE ON PANTS AND BURNED LEG. DX- 2ND DEGREE BURN R ANTE RIOR SHIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2004 | Age: 21 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 |
| PT. HAS A CIGARETTE BURN FROM A WEEK AGO, NOW IS INFECTED INFECTED WOUND UPPER ABDOMEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/15/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT BURNED HER RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER ON A CIGARETTE A WEEK AGO AND NOW IT IS INFECTED CAME TO THE ED FOR THE INFECTION CELLULITIS FINGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/05/2004 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| 17YOF@FRIEND'S HOME WOKE UP IN AM/SOMEONE HAD PUT A CIGARETTE BURN DX: 2ND DEGREE BURN AROUND HER BELLYBUTTON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/31/2004 | Age: 23 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS - 23 YOM C/O PAIN AND WATERY RIGHT EYE AFTER GE TTING ASH FROM A CIGARETTE IN HIS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2004 | 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: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT SUSTAINED A BURN OF HER EYELID FROM LIGHTING A CIGARETTE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/16/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | 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 |
| BURN FOREARM - 21 YOM BURNED HIS LEFT FOREARM ON A SMOKING PIPE TWO DAY S AGO, HAS A SECOND DEGREE BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/14/2004 | Age: 19 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 |
| GOT HOT PART OF CIGARETTE IN EYE/ CIGARETTE BURN LT EYE,CORNEAL ABRASI ON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/04/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PAIN TO UPPER LIP AFTER BURNING IT WITH A CIGARETTE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/30/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT WITH SIDE CHEST PAIN. SMOKED MARIJUANA EARLIER AND USES METHAMPHETAM INE. SMOKES 1/2 PACK CIGARETTES A DAY. D:LL PNEUMONIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT RIDING IN A CAR FLICKED A LIT CIGARETTE OUT THE CAR WINDOW AND THE W IND BLEW ASHES IN LEFT EYE ABRASION EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2004 | Age: 23 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: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| 23 YO MALE WAS SMOKING CIGAR AND INHALED HOT ASH IRRITANT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/17/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Cigarette or pipe lighters |
| FIRST AND SECOND DEGREE BURN L HAND - HAND CAUGHT FIRE WHEN LIGHTING CI GARETTE AFTER FILLING ZIPPO LIGHTER, NO MENTION OF FIRE DEPARTMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/16/2004 | 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: Elbow | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT WITH ELBOW PAIN, REDNESS AND SWELLING SECONDARY TO CIGARETTE BURN ON FRIDAY. D: CELLULITIS, ABSCESS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Finger | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT BURNED FINGER WITH CIGARETTE 2 MONTHS AGO. NOW PAIN, SWELLING. D: FI NGER ULCER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2004 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| 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 |
| PT WAS AT A CLUB - SMOKED CIGARRETTE - NOW C/O HEADACHE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| 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, Day wear |
| 24 YOM SMOKING A CIGARETTE SHIRT CAUGHT ON FIRE NO FD INVOVLEMENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/26/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Arm | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| RIGHT TRICEP MUSCLE STR. PT THREW A PACK OF CIGARETTES AT SOMEONE AND A RM SNAPPED. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/21/2004 | Age: 17 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 |
| LEFT CORNEAL BURN.PT WAS ACCIDENTLY HIT IN EYE WITH A CIGARETTE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2004 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Ankle | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT. JUMPED UP WHEN LIT CIGARETTE HIT HIS FINGER, TWISTED ANKLE. DX. SP RAIN R ANKLE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/28/2004 | Age: 21 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 |
| CORN BURN. PT BURNED EYE WITH A CIGARETTE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/23/2004 | 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: Hand | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| PT BURNED HAND ON HOT METAL CRACK PIPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2004 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, Ashtrays, not electric or not battery operated |
| PATIENT PUT A CIGARETTE OUT IN ASHTRAY THAT HAD GUN POWDER IN IT AND IT UNITED. DX: 1ST DEGREE BURNS TO FACE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2004 | Age: 21 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 |
| CORNEAL ABRASION - 21 YOM HAD PUT OUT CIGARETTE, THEN WENT BACK TO LIGH T IT UP AGAIN WHEN IT FLARED UP SENDING CINDERS INTO HIS RIGHT EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2004 | Age: 19 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco |
| FB INGESTION-SMOKING MARIJUANA-THINKS HE SWALLOWED THE "HOT METAL SCREE N" FROM THE PIPE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/29/2004 | Age: 17 years | Sex: Female | 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 |
| PT STATES SHE WAS CHEWING NICORETTE GUM AND SMOKED A CIGARETTE WHILE CHEWING GUM AND DEVELOPED PALPITATIONS |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 03/24/2004 | Age: 20 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, Matches |
| LIGHTING CIGARETTE - MATCH FLEW IN EYE - CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2004 | Age: 24 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| 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 |
| 24 YO MALE SWALLOWED CHEWING TOBACCO UPSET STOMACH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2004 | Age: 23 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 |
| HIT IN EYE BY HOT CIGARETTE ASH/ FB REMOVED, LT EYE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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