include any organic chlorine containing polymers or resins in which the chlorine is attached directly to a carbon atom polymers and or monomers thereof useful to the present invention include but are not limited to poly vinyl chloride pvc poly vinylidene chloride chlorinated poly vinyl chloride chlorinated polyethylene chlorinated natural or synthetic rubber polychloroprene rubber hydrochloride or chlorinated polystyrene and combinations and copolymers thereof the molecular weight of such polymers can vary over a wide range and they generally have a number average molecular weight of from about 5 000 to about 1 000 000 or from about 10 000 to 100 000 for pvc such polymers can contain the combustion inhibitors of the present invention as well as other additives commonly used in the art including but not limited to plasticizers stabilizers colorants lubricants extenders impact modifiers fillers antioxidants ultraviolet light absorbing agents and densifying agents the above noted chlorine containing polymers are made from monomers such as vinyl chloride vinylidene chloride and the like or are copolymers made from a mixture of monomers comprising desirably at least about 70 by weight of vinyl chloride based on the total monomer weight examples of the copolymers include those made from vinyl chloride and from about 1 to about 30 of a copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer such as vinyl acetate vinyl butyrate vinyl benzoate vinylidene chloride diethyl fumarate diethyl maleate other alkyl fumarates and maleates vinyl propionate methyl acrylate 2 ethylhexyl acrylate butyl acrylate and other alkyl acrylates methyl methacrylate ethyl methacrylate butyl methacrylate and other alkyl methacrylates methyl.