Judge: HI man accused in fire must quit smoking

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Judge: HI man accused in fire must quit smoking

Sunday, September 20, 2009

(09-20) 16:35 PDT Wailuku, Hawaii (AP) --

A Maui judge has ordered a 19-year-old man who pleaded no contest to starting a restaurant fire with a flicked cigarette to stop smoking for a year.

Makaio Bachman-Majamay of Makawao was originally charged with third-degree arson for allegedly igniting the shake roof of the Wei Wei Bar-B-Q Restaurant in Pukalani in July 2008. A witnesses extinguished the blaze using buckets of water.

Deputy Public Defender William McGrath says his client didn't mean to set the fire.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/20/national/a163541D83.DTL&tsp=1

[Historic NY]

1. He didn't get enough smoke working at a Bar-B-Q. a slap for reckless behavior.

[onehandle]

2. Good. "Smoking is a major cause of fires, study says."

Based on a worldwide study of smoking-related fire and disaster data, University of California-Davis epidemiologists show that smoking is a leading global cause of fires and death from fires, resulting in an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion in the United States and $27.2 billion worldwide in 1998. The study was published in the August issue of Preventive Medicine.

Fires cause 1% of the global burden of disease and 300,000 deaths per year worldwide. Smoking causes an estimated 30% of fire deaths in the United States and 10% of fire deaths worldwide.

In France, a single lighted cigarette thrown from a moving car in 1999 ignited a fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel, a major thoroughfare between France and Italy, causing 39 deaths and over $1 billion in losses to the region. The Oakland Hills, Calif., fire, in which a lit cigarette remains a suspected cause, left 10,000 homeless, destroyed nearly 4,000 dwellings and cost more than $1.5 billion.

And in Texas City, Texas, the fbi blamed a cigarette for probably igniting an ammonium nitrate explosion in 1947, causing the worst industrial disaster death toll in U.S. history. The explosion caused nearly 600 deaths, 380 hospitalizations longer than two months, 4,100 casualties, and damage to more than 90% of the city's buildings at a cost of more than $4 billion.

http://firechief.com/mag/firefighting_smoking_major_cause/

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Back in the 60s and 70s, most folks had burns on their furniture and rugs from smokers

[Soylent Brice]

6. and i did too, in my apartment for yrs before i met my wife and

had kids.

once i married i started smoking outside, and not in the car at all either.

before that i had the yard sale-cig burn pockmarked-furniture set.

aahhh, the bachelor life.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. Yep, cars were also burnt and smoky, with ashes everywhere.

[Robb]

3. Interesting.

A judge can order no alcohol in a DUI or domestic case. I wonder if it's the same principle here. :shrug:

[Speaker]

5. Cool

Next a judge can order someone not to have sex out of marriage, because it spreads disease.

[Winterblues]

8. If that person had been the cause of spreading disease then yes that Judge could indeed

I imagine it is an either or situation. Either quit or go to jail for a period of time..

[InkAddict]

7. E-cig use ok?