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47282847today at 2:38 AM

“Burning wood at home produces more pollution than road traffic” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdne9ke0m1o

“Residential wood-burning is the biggest source of particulate matter and soot/black carbon in Europe” https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/latest-evidence-on...

“domestic wood-burning is the largest source of particulate pollution in the UK. Only 8% of the UK’s homes burn wood, but this accounts for around 21% of the total PM2.5 emissions, whereas all traffic on the UK roads produces 13%” https://medium.com/the-new-climate/why-the-environmental-mov...

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djmipstoday at 7:12 AM

Putting aside the debate about harm, it's very annoying filling the shared air with wood smoke. I'm glad you think you're invulnerable to smoke.

f33d5173today at 2:06 AM

> Did you notice how they have banned and demonized tobacco, but the lung cancer rate keeps increasing?

No, I noticed the opposite. They demonized tobacco, and lung cancer rates went dowm precipitously.

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olalondetoday at 5:45 AM

Lung cancer rates are decreasing.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-cigarette-sales-1900-...

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DANmodetoday at 6:13 AM

> the lung cancer rate keeps increasing? I just don't get it!

ChangeTheAirFoundation.org