If we're serious about environment and health issues, news outlets like @guardian should stop depicting homes with smoke billowing from chimneys. Showing wood-burning reinforces a culture that needs to change.
A few years ago, I abruptly left Flagstaff, Arizona after a traveling companion became sick from wood burning in the area. News this week: large wildfire in Northern Arizona. Would nature burn less if we tried to burn less?
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Permission is also central to devices. When you go to a website, you are telling your device that you permit information from an external source. We don't explicitly permit sharing data or viewing ads.
Many of our current issues are about permission. We do not have permission to attack others. We do not have permission to sicken others. Smoke, tobacco and nicotine exposure should not be a gray area of the law. It is wrong and should be seen akin to abuse or attack.
Local news covered a budget-centric carbon footprint app. However, it appeared to be more about tracking spending habits. It was also not useful to track wood-burning or charcoal use.
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The companies that make heated tobacco products like to conflate HTPs with non-tobacco e-cigarettes, when they're a different category. They also use the HNB term to make people believe there's no combustion, despite some evidence of burning.
CNN on ventilation for COVID uses smoke exposure as an example, but unfortunately mistakes how smoke affects us. I can get sick from smoke dozens or hundreds of feet away. I can also become sick inside if there is smoke outside.
cnn.com/2022/04/10/health/co…
I've been worried about the so-called heat-not-burn tobacco, which I understand to be different from vaping. I think they produce a very disturbing and damaging type of pollution that is hard to identify. Multi-unit buildings and hotels will be more unsafe.
加熱式タバコが大量のPM2.5を発生させていることが良く解る動画がアップされています。一度、ご覧になると良いと思います。
#受動喫煙 #アイコス #プルームテック
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Today, NBC and MSNBC praise Bruno Mars smoking indoors, around others, at the Grammys. No matter what we do to be healthy, someone else is eager to make us sick.
I'm visiting Arizona, where drought issues are all over the local news. Yet, wood-burning is fairly common, even in areas with almost no trees. Aren't people aware that by not burning wood, we can enjoy better health and environment?
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Pollutionwatch: wood fires are bad for planet, more evidence shows theguardian.com/environment/…
I keep reading about Australians burning wood and having wildfire issues, and California and the western U.S. burning wood and having drought and wildfire risk. Can we conclude that neither regions should burn wood?
Kaiser Health shows conflicting articles about wood fires and health. One details why wood burning should be phased out. The other portrays wood fires as vital to community, despite the community suffering from health issues.
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khn.org/news/article/america…
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And the Oscar goes to....the tobacco industry!
Of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture this year, 80% include tobacco depictions according to @truthinitiative data:
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#HelpOscarQuit
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Ugh. I do know I find it almost as intolerable to be with people vaping as with smoking—it badly affects my lungs in a similar way. But this being Humboldt, it’s usually not tobacco people are vaping around here!
Does anyone else notice that a lot of the ads for medication seem to be for conditions that could be related to smoke exposure? Are we chronically managing (and paying for) health problems because of smoke in our communities?
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This logic is no longer supported by the latest scientific evidence, which shows that burning wood for power is often not carbon neutral, and can be MORE polluting than coal.
By ditching coal for biomass, Asia is embracing false zero-carbon hope scmp.com/comment/opinion/asi…
I've noticed a new smell similar to smoking. Does anyone know what heat-not-burn tobacco products smell like? When I ask people I'm with, only I can detect the smell, though we all feel unwell. If this is a new trend, I can't stay in hotels or live in multi-unit buildings.
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Tobacco companies claim to protect biodiversity. The reality is these companies contribute to an est. of 5% of🌍 #deforestation & conduct so-called environmental activities to distract attention from being a major ecosystem disruptor. #IntlForestDay #BetterWithForests #ForNature