Killer cookstoves: Indoor smoke deadly in poor countries, cleaner stoves elusive

Environmental Health News: For 80-year-old grandmother Espirita Lima Bautista, breathing while cooking over her kitchen hearth is like inhaling the second-hand soot of 400 cigarettes. Exposure to this dangerous pollution began when she was a baby, slung in a blanket over her mother's back in her village in Peru. Two decades ago, concerns about cooking fires centered on deforestation. Now research shows that cookstoves can kill people, too. Indoor smoke from coal, wood or dung ranks ahead of unsafe water as a cause of death...

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