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So just did a quick google regarding wood vs cigarettes and cancer...
Below is a NGO's reference. I cannot confirm on the autheniticity. But it's interesting to note. And for Sumatra / Kalimantan, it's not only the clearing of forests (wood) but also burning of sub-surface peat.
http://www.familiesforcleanair.org/health/health4/
Wood Smoke vs. Cigarette Smoke
People who would never dream of smoking a cigarette choose to burn wood. Yet wood smoke contains many of the same toxic and carcinogenic substances as cigarette smoke, including benzene, benzo(a)pyrene, and dibenz(a,h)anthracene.
And wood smoke produces far more particulate pollution than cigarette smoke does.
EPA researchers estimate the lifetime cancer risk from wood smoke to be 12 times greater than from a similar amount of cigarette smoke.
In a laboratory study at Louisiana State University, researchers found that hazardous free radicals in wood smoke are chemically active 40 times longer than those from cigarette smoke—so once inhaled, they will harm the body for far longer.
Other EPA estimates suggest that a single fireplace operating for an hour and burning 10 pounds of wood will generate 4,300 times more carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons than 30 cigarettes.
EDit -
https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/publications/92046.pdf
Washington State Department of Ecology.
Human cancer risks have now been estimated for lifetime exposure to diesel vehicle, leaded and catalyst-equipped gas vehicle, wood stove, cigarette smoke, coke oven (coal), and roofing tar emissions. EPA researchers suggest that the lifetime cancer risk from wood stove emissions may be 12 times greater than the lifetime cancer risk from exposure to an equal amount of cigarette smoke. The lifetime human cancer risk estimates from exposure to wood smoke and motor vehicle emissions are theorectical based on such comparative potency tests.
Below is a NGO's reference. I cannot confirm on the autheniticity. But it's interesting to note. And for Sumatra / Kalimantan, it's not only the clearing of forests (wood) but also burning of sub-surface peat.
http://www.familiesforcleanair.org/health/health4/
Wood Smoke vs. Cigarette Smoke
People who would never dream of smoking a cigarette choose to burn wood. Yet wood smoke contains many of the same toxic and carcinogenic substances as cigarette smoke, including benzene, benzo(a)pyrene, and dibenz(a,h)anthracene.
And wood smoke produces far more particulate pollution than cigarette smoke does.
EPA researchers estimate the lifetime cancer risk from wood smoke to be 12 times greater than from a similar amount of cigarette smoke.
In a laboratory study at Louisiana State University, researchers found that hazardous free radicals in wood smoke are chemically active 40 times longer than those from cigarette smoke—so once inhaled, they will harm the body for far longer.
Other EPA estimates suggest that a single fireplace operating for an hour and burning 10 pounds of wood will generate 4,300 times more carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons than 30 cigarettes.
EDit -
https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/publications/92046.pdf
Washington State Department of Ecology.
Human cancer risks have now been estimated for lifetime exposure to diesel vehicle, leaded and catalyst-equipped gas vehicle, wood stove, cigarette smoke, coke oven (coal), and roofing tar emissions. EPA researchers suggest that the lifetime cancer risk from wood stove emissions may be 12 times greater than the lifetime cancer risk from exposure to an equal amount of cigarette smoke. The lifetime human cancer risk estimates from exposure to wood smoke and motor vehicle emissions are theorectical based on such comparative potency tests.
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