Wood smoke is harmful? Hardly.

Did you notice how they have banned and demonized tobacco, but the lung cancer rate keeps increasing? I just don't get it!

Now they're coming for wood stoves next. I'm sure the cancer will go away after that.

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47282847 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

“Burning wood at home produces more pollution than road traffic” 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...

“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-mov...

	▲	its_ubuntu 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah yes, the proverbial Quick Google Search that proves me wrong. Sorry, can't be bothered to take any of that noise seriously. As I pointed out in my other now-censored post, I breathe in smoke every day through the copious amount of weed I smoke, and have done so for decades. I'm in perfect health. Odds are, much better than you in fact. When was the last time you were sick? For me it has been decades. Let's compare notes and decide which of us really knows the meaning of health. Everything is a lie. Believe none of it.

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f33d5173 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> 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 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/11/... https://cancer.osu.edu/news/a-new-face-of-lung-cancer-is-eme... https://www.mskcc.org/news/lung-cancer-in-women-and-nonsmoke... https://www.dukehealth.org/blog/lung-cancer-young-and-middle... https://pressroom.cancer.org/releases?item=1262 https://rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/well/prevention/young-wom...