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The Importance of Clean Air
Clean Air Revival provides public education about the medical hazards of exposure to wood smoke and other fine particulate pollution. Smoke from residential burning of wood and coal, wood burning restaurants and outdoor burning of wood, leaves, crops, tires and debris is permeating our neighborhoods, resulting in high ground level concentrations of toxic air pollution.
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Burning solid fuel yields particulate pollution - solid particles smaller than a red blood cell which have been implicated in 30,000 deaths in the US and 2.1 million deaths world wide per year. .  "Particulate pollution is the most important contaminant in our air. ...we know that when particle levels go up, people die1. "   Indeed, wood smoke is chemically active in the body 40 times longer than tobacco2.

1. Joel Schwartz, Ph.D., Harvard School of Public Health, E Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2002

2. Wm. A Pryor, Persistent Free Radicals in Woodsmoke: An ESR Spin Trapping Study, Free Radical Biology and Medicine 1989, 7(1): 17-21



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All combustion results in very fine micro particulates and there is no safe level of this asbestos sized, dangerous air pollutant. Solid fuels, such as pellets and especially wood, produce many orders of magnitude more smoke & fine particulate air pollutants than cleaner fuels.
Latest Wood Smoke News:
12/2007 Bay Area Study of Wood Smoke Plumes and Particulate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) 1994 and 2006.
10/20/06: EPA Report showing that certified wood stoves deteriorate over time.
10/05/06: World Health Organization: 2 million premature deaths every year due to air pollution. They urge cleaning up the air.
9/15/06: Wood smoke from heating and cooking raises lung cancer risk. Featured Health Science: Reuters Health, July 2005
9/15/06: Outdoor wood burning fireplaces and fire pits are selling like hot cakes all around the United States. Special Report.
8/03/06: Featured Report: Outdoor Wood Boilers
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