Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by karaterobot on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:08PM
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I looked around for studies concluding that wood smoke from indoor fireplaces had worse health effects than chronic secondhand smoke exposure. I found a few that link wood smoke and lung cancer, which makes sense to me because wood smoke is a carcinogen. But I didn't find anything claiming it was worse than secondhand cigarette smoke, which is the part of the claim I find unintuitive. Can you point me to whatever source you used to make the above statement?
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Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:36PM
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Do those studies link "wood smoke from indoor fireplaces" or just "wood smoke" to lung cancer? The level of smoke exposure from a modern indoor fireplace is considerably less than from an outdoor fire pit.
I will happily have my fireplace burning all day long on a subzero winter day, throwing on the occasional fresh log. But if I have a bonfire outside in summer, I need to be standing upwind.
Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by karaterobot on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:18PM
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002194/ is the one I was mainly thinking of. This is about indoor solid fuel burning. They looked at coal and wood, and found very strong effects in coal (duh) but also some effects in wood. But, I didn't see any comparison to cigarettes or secondhand smoke from either of them.
It would be really surprising to me if it were the case, because secondhand smoke certainly seems like it creates more particulates in a house, since most wood smoke goes up the chimney. Plus, if you smoke, you're probably not only smoking for part of the year, like with fireplace use.
But, my intuition is not a strong argument, so that's why I'd love to see the study.