The last time Mr. Miller had spoken to this paper, it was regarding a dispute about a ban on the use of fireplaces at his building (involving another pop music legend, Bono).
The results revealed that the actual use of fireplaces and site conditions may differ significantly from the test conditions of EN standards.
Given my fairly infrequent use of the fireplace, he said, I should be O.K. waiting two years for an inspection.
From nearby villages, it is hard to understand the nightly sacrifice of a buffalo worth most of a year's labor, or the use of a fireplace that in one evening can burn enough wood to last a villager's stove for months.
The infamous smog episode killing thousands of people in the winter of 1952 eventually led to the ban of household use of coal fireplaces in London.
Additional adjustment for exposure to biomass smoke which we defined as present if the participant reported use of a wood fireplace, wood burning oven, or either coal, coke, or wood fuel for heating did not result in any meaningful change in the effect estimates presented (data not shown).
Thank you for the excellent article about the downsides of fireplace use ("The Love Affair With the Fireplace Cools," Jan . 20.
Because of the uncertain frequency of fireplace use, we have not included homes with fireplaces in our estimate, although they likely are important sources of indoor PM.
In the East, he wrote in an e-mail, air pollution is at its worst in the summer, and in the West the regulations are an overreaction: "Because it is not realistic to test each unique masonry fireplace in a laboratory" to evaluate its emissions, he noted, "it is easier for some municipalities to arbitrarily limit" the use of all wood-burning fireplaces.
Here we report on the association between use of indoor stoves and fireplaces and breast cancer risk.
Indoor air pollution from use of indoor stoves and/or fireplaces is an important source of ambient PAH exposure.
