The mean cost to repair the smoke and fire damage that results from home fires of all causes is $11,389 (HomeAdvisor website, December 2014). How does the damage that results from home fires caused by careless use of tobacco compare? The DATAfile named TobaccoFires provides the cost to repair smoke and fire damage associated with a sample of 55 fires caused by careless use of tobacco products. Using past years' data, the population standard deviation can be assumed known with σ = $3,027.