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100% agree, many people don’t realize just how harmful wood smoke is. It’s also the main source of pollution in the Bay Area during the winter. Unfortunately en
by j-conn 8mo ago
100% agree, many people don’t realize just how harmful wood smoke is. It’s also the main source of pollution in the Bay Area during the winter. Unfortunately energy costs are high enough here that people resort to burning wood to save money, so collectively beneficial policies are likely to face resistance (understandably).
The purpleair map has been awesome to at least make the problem visible. I hope they are using it to aid enforcement on spare the air days.
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[flagged]
- f33d5173 8mo ago> 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.
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[dead]
- tzs 8mo agoRates are down massively compared to where they were before the significant drop in smoking. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10752493/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10752493/
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[flagged]
- defrost 8mo ago> a full 1/3 of lifelong smokers never develop any kind of cancer, That's "true" in the sense that it's the CVD (Cardiovascular disease) and COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that are way more likely to take them out first. Lifetime Smoking History and Cause-Specific Mortality in a Cohort Study with 43 Years of Follow-Up https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4824471/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4824471/ Sure, you absolutely can be 98 years old sucking back on a deathstick, just like you might find yourself screaming "suck it" as you take home that giant lottery cheque with some winnings. Pachinko's a hell of a game .. but still the house wins.
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[dead]
- defrost 8mo agoBuck up, This Is Serious Mum: 40 Years of Living, Then Death (with simulated smoking) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGxDVXGRQpY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGxDVXGRQpY Life is a MLM: Death, Death, Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoODPQ4CTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoODPQ4CTM
- 47282847 8mo ago“Burning wood at home produces more pollution than road traffic” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdne9ke0m1o 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-the-destructive-climate-and-health-impact-of-biomass-subsidies-and-wood-burning/ 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-movement-has-a-blind-spot-for-wood-burning-73a5d0eb2a6b https://medium.com/the-new-climate/why-the-environmental-mov...
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[flagged]
- ornornor 8mo agoYes clearly your anecdote is irrefutable proof.
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[flagged]
- ornornor 8mo agoYou’re the one claiming smoking cigarettes don’t give lung cancer and it’s all a big conspiracy to mess with you. So the onus in on you to show that smoking cigarettes doesn’t cause lung cancer despite the overwhelming amount t of scientific evidence that it does.
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[flagged]
- olalonde 8mo agoLung cancer rates are decreasing. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-cigarette-sales-1900-2014-vs-US-lung-cancer-deaths-1950-2020-Data-sources_fig1_382523701 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-cigarette-sales-1900-...
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[flagged]
- DANmode 8mo ago> the lung cancer rate keeps increasing? I just don't get it! ChangeTheAirFoundation.org
- djmips 8mo agoPutting 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.