
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Is Smoking a Cause of Suicide?
In western countries, the number people who commit suicide by self immolation is around one %. People don't tend to use fire as a source of light in their homes any more. In america, accidents with cigarettes are a leading cause of fire deaths. The cases reported on pho dot com seem drop off after the 19 eighties. If you're smoking a pipe and you want to use a bowlful of tobacco, you will typically have to light the pipe multiple times. This reveals how difficult it can be to smoke something that's easy to do.
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Every so often, there are reports of people bursting into flames for no apparent reason, reducing most of their body to ashes, but with little or no fire damage around them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what we should make of these reports of spontaneous human combustion and what could be causing them.
