A lot of people have no idea how to run a wood heater, or just don't care because the smoke doesn't affect them. I now have asthma because of years of a neighbours' badly run heater. It was only when I kept them awake all night (as they have done to me for years) that they did something to reduce the smoke (after polite negotiation failed).
A lot of people buy a heater that is too big, therefore have to run them damped down which makes smoke.
It's the impurities in the air upon which clouds form. All smoke is deleterious to health, as is hypothermia to people who do not possess wood-burning stoves!!!
@EasingDifficulties The American Lung Association recommends using cleaner, less toxic sources of heat. Converting wood burning heaters to natural gas or propane will eliminate exposure to dangerous toxins generated by burning wood including dioxins, arsenic and formaldehyde. Gas stoves, electric heat pumps, insulation and solar passive homes also help to keep warm in winter. When the health costs of pollution are added, non polluting heating is cheaper than burning wood in urban areas.
@AlongTheFarClimbDown This is a fair comment if you live in a rural area and the burning wood is your only form of domestic heating. However, I disagree with your comment if you live in the middle of a residential area and you have access to cleaner more efficient forms of heating. In my city people access wood from our parks and reserves as commercial fire wood becomes more expensive. Not only is it illegal, they are denying our suburban wildlife natural forms of shelter.
@megasmokey12345 : Volusia County, Fla. burns 40,000 acres of forests in controlled burns annually. Thousands of houses in southern Ca. have been lost from forest fires because nature decided to do some housekeeping. What do you suggest should be done with dead wood? Where would you put it? It is a fire hazard is it not?
@AlongTheFarClimbDown As long as the wood can be gathered without damaging the ecology, by all means gather it, and use it as mulch, or to burn instead of coal in power stations. This will reduce the amount of fossil fuels burned, helping to avoid irrevocable climate change. Unfortunately, burning the wood in domestic log heaters does the opposite. It increases climate change, by produces methane, which causes 25 times as much global warming as the same amount of carbon dioxide.
Thanks for this VIDEO; it will bring valuable information to the public about the health hazards in wood smoke. Most people are not aware of the dangers lurking in the smoke which is associated with romantic coziness. Not only is wood smoke linked to many respiratory diseases, including cancer; but also, one can become hypersensitive to it (as is in my case); and when that happens a so called ‘normal’ life stops to exist and a nightmare begins.
I have a News clipping (Tri-City News Wed., 17, 1997Dec 1997, Dr. Sverre Vedal, was at that time, UBC associate professor of medicine and B.C. Lung Association researcher in Vancouver, BC, Canada and warns that residential wood burning is a health thread. Now in 2010 it is knowledge that wood smoke is linked to cancer. But so far officials on all three levels of government have done nothing about banning the use of fireplaces!
Thank you for posting this Video; it will be educational!
I have a News clipping (Tri-City News Wed., 17, 1997Dec 1997; Dr. Sverre Vedal, was at that time, UBC associate professor of medicine and B.C. Lung Association researcher in Vancouver, BC, Canada and warns that residential wood burning is a health thread. Now in 2010 it is knowledge that wood smoke is linked to cancer. But so far officials on all three levels of government have done nothing about banning the use of fireplaces; most people think it is safe to burn.
Thanks for posting this, people really need to start and wake up to the truth about wood smoke. Cigarette smoke has been revealed for what is is, why can't it be the same for wood smoke?
Thank you for your support. It is well known and well documented that wood smoke contains many of the same toxic and cancer causing chemicals found in cigarette smoke. We all know about the serious health dangers of cigarette smoke. In an effort to protect public health Governments have banned smoking on public transport, in public places, in clubs, pubs and restaurants. Yet little is done to protect the public from wood smoke.
A lot of people have no idea how to run a wood heater, or just don't care because the smoke doesn't affect them. I now have asthma because of years of a neighbours' badly run heater. It was only when I kept them awake all night (as they have done to me for years) that they did something to reduce the smoke (after polite negotiation failed).
A lot of people buy a heater that is too big, therefore have to run them damped down which makes smoke.
wfdTamar 9 months ago
It's the impurities in the air upon which clouds form. All smoke is deleterious to health, as is hypothermia to people who do not possess wood-burning stoves!!!
EasingDifficulties 1 year ago
@EasingDifficulties The American Lung Association recommends using cleaner, less toxic sources of heat. Converting wood burning heaters to natural gas or propane will eliminate exposure to dangerous toxins generated by burning wood including dioxins, arsenic and formaldehyde. Gas stoves, electric heat pumps, insulation and solar passive homes also help to keep warm in winter. When the health costs of pollution are added, non polluting heating is cheaper than burning wood in urban areas.
megasmokey12345 1 year ago 5
If we don't gather the dead wood and underbrush, nature will burn it for us.
AlongTheFarClimbDown 1 year ago
@AlongTheFarClimbDown This is a fair comment if you live in a rural area and the burning wood is your only form of domestic heating. However, I disagree with your comment if you live in the middle of a residential area and you have access to cleaner more efficient forms of heating. In my city people access wood from our parks and reserves as commercial fire wood becomes more expensive. Not only is it illegal, they are denying our suburban wildlife natural forms of shelter.
megasmokey12345 1 year ago 3
@megasmokey12345 : Volusia County, Fla. burns 40,000 acres of forests in controlled burns annually. Thousands of houses in southern Ca. have been lost from forest fires because nature decided to do some housekeeping. What do you suggest should be done with dead wood? Where would you put it? It is a fire hazard is it not?
AlongTheFarClimbDown 1 year ago
@AlongTheFarClimbDown As long as the wood can be gathered without damaging the ecology, by all means gather it, and use it as mulch, or to burn instead of coal in power stations. This will reduce the amount of fossil fuels burned, helping to avoid irrevocable climate change. Unfortunately, burning the wood in domestic log heaters does the opposite. It increases climate change, by produces methane, which causes 25 times as much global warming as the same amount of carbon dioxide.
megasmokey12345 1 year ago 3
Love this but the music is too distracting. Please redo without the music.
ParticulateMatters 1 year ago
Thanks for this VIDEO; it will bring valuable information to the public about the health hazards in wood smoke. Most people are not aware of the dangers lurking in the smoke which is associated with romantic coziness. Not only is wood smoke linked to many respiratory diseases, including cancer; but also, one can become hypersensitive to it (as is in my case); and when that happens a so called ‘normal’ life stops to exist and a nightmare begins.
BrieoBrigitte 1 year ago 5
I have a News clipping (Tri-City News Wed., 17, 1997Dec 1997, Dr. Sverre Vedal, was at that time, UBC associate professor of medicine and B.C. Lung Association researcher in Vancouver, BC, Canada and warns that residential wood burning is a health thread. Now in 2010 it is knowledge that wood smoke is linked to cancer. But so far officials on all three levels of government have done nothing about banning the use of fireplaces!
Thank you for posting this Video; it will be educational!
BrieoBrigitte 1 year ago 9
I have a News clipping (Tri-City News Wed., 17, 1997Dec 1997; Dr. Sverre Vedal, was at that time, UBC associate professor of medicine and B.C. Lung Association researcher in Vancouver, BC, Canada and warns that residential wood burning is a health thread. Now in 2010 it is knowledge that wood smoke is linked to cancer. But so far officials on all three levels of government have done nothing about banning the use of fireplaces; most people think it is safe to burn.
Thanks for the Video!
BrieoBrigitte 1 year ago 2
Thanks for posting this, people really need to start and wake up to the truth about wood smoke. Cigarette smoke has been revealed for what is is, why can't it be the same for wood smoke?
imgonnabeamonkey 1 year ago 13
@imgonnabeamonkey
Thank you for your support. It is well known and well documented that wood smoke contains many of the same toxic and cancer causing chemicals found in cigarette smoke. We all know about the serious health dangers of cigarette smoke. In an effort to protect public health Governments have banned smoking on public transport, in public places, in clubs, pubs and restaurants. Yet little is done to protect the public from wood smoke.
megasmokey12345 1 year ago 10