Simple Hobby

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? theguardian.com/us-news/2022/a…

@FedUpWithBadAir I want more courts take smoke exposure seriously. I suffered physically and financially from smoke exposure ten years ago. I'm not healed and no one in the legal process I encountered encouraged compensation or change.

@simplehobby Deliberately exposing others to air pollution should be assault [with a weapon]. Incidentally exposing others to air pollution having ought to have known that it would happen should be criminal negligence causing bodily harm.

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.

@bookplatypus @AlmaHyslop @CBCNews As an example of no excuse: people in California, one of the richest places on Earth with a $40 billion surplus, heat and cook with wood and charcoal. Why drive electric cars and install solar panels if we burn trees? Why worry about "wild" fires when we deliberately start fires?

@simplehobby @AlmaHyslop @CBCNews True fuel poverty ( where people depend on solid fuel for heating) is relatively rare but a serious issue that needs urgently addressing. The rest are self indulgences that need to be banned - there is no excuse

Perhaps some of these researchers could now study fireplaces, wood stoves, and fire pits? @CBCNews #woodsmoke = #cancer #heartdisease #asthma #COPD #dementia After seeing how gas stoves pollute homes, these researchers are ditching theirs | CBC News cbc.ca/news/science/g…

@AirFairy04 It is long overdue to legally protect our health from pollution. I hope that we recognize that smoke exposure is very much part of the pollution that makes us sick.

#AirPollution #Health airqualitynews.com/2022/04/18/a-n…

@pikaso15 I really hate it when construction workers smoke on site. You're building something that is someone else's property--you don't have the right to make it unhealthy or polluted.

隣に通行人がいるのに堂々と喫煙する工事作業員。そういう会社なんだろうね。

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.

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.

@YulDorotheo It's dangerous to market any of these products as less dangerous. Nicotine and tobacco use is implicated in so many health problems, including this continuing Covid pandemic.

@simplehobby 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.

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.

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/hea…

@Healthy_Air "Burn wise" is terrible propaganda. We have a lot of nonsensical adages like smoking outside is "safer" or vaping is "less harmful". None of this is safe, harmless or wise. Nothing makes exposing you or loved ones to toxic chemicals healthy. Show that you care. Don't burn.

New study shows children in homes with wood stoves at significantly increased risk of respiratory infections—and that “burn wise” education programs don’t help: ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.12…

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.

@woodsmokestinks @cvspharmacy I'm wearing my mask around others, too. We had fewer cases and deaths last year before numbers went up again.

I’m about to find out how well an N95 works that isn’t fit tested. Had to go to a @cvspharmacy 2 days ago. An unmasked couple, obviously quite ill and coughing a lot, positioned themselves at the front of the line and coughed on everyone. I was the only 😷 there, staff included.

@Lamamu63393009 @ausgov @QldGov @AsthmaAustralia @QldEnvironment @QldFES @qldgovlocalgov @CouncilSCC @brisbanecityqld @cityofgoldcoast @AnnastaciaMP @meaghan_scanlon @Lungfoundation Why install solar panels and a wood-burning fireplace? To feel smug without accomplishing real environmental goals? We need to set bias aside to address environment and health issues.

I posted about builder #matirahomes marketing lethal wood burning in their display home- was blocked & silenced. @ausgov @Qldgov please explain how this is allowed, especially when houses so close will be exposed unnecessarily to toxic wood smoke pollution, thus also health risks

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?

@Susangoldsboro1 @AlmaHyslop @cancersociety For change to be effective, multiple people need to speak up. However, individuals using their time and energy to promote positive change is a burden. Why doesn't a cancer society, which has funding and resources, communicate that burning things is a cancer risk?

@AlmaHyslop @cancersociety Have you tried calling them and asking who is their head of social media? I’ve found that occasionally a direct conversation can help such people see how tone deaf they are being.

Spot the carcinogen! Sad but true: @cancersociety tweeted a photo with a fire pit in the background. Why won’t they TELL THE TRUTH about recreational wood burning? Don’t they know? #woodsmoke = #cancer