Strazdas1 t1_ixgtyyt wrote on November 23, 2022 at 9:49 AM

Reply to comment by Insufferablelol in Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System by filosoful

only in a sense that its much thicker and theres lots of it. A cigarette is what, 5 minutes filtered smoke and youre done. a firest fire is 5 days nonstop poisoning.

asdaaaaaaaa t1_ixh41a7 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 12:04 PM

I'd imagine wildfire smoke is probably a lot less worse than industrial/residential smoke as well, due to it mainly being burning wood/organics. With actual buildings and stuff, there's so many things not meant to burn, or off-gas some pretty terrible stuff just due to being plastic or some other commonly used material. Would be interesting to see a study on the differences over a longer period of time.

Strazdas1 t1_ixh4f07 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 12:08 PM

A house fire does include hazardous smoke, but they tend to produce a lot less exhaust mass than a burning forest. Note that the #1 pollutant in cities used to be people using wood in their stoves.

ZippyDan t1_ixibt7v wrote on November 23, 2022 at 5:35 PM

I don't know why you would think that "natural" burned stuff is somehow "better" than "artificial" burned stuff. I mean, it could be, and certainly some artificial stuff is really nasty, but it's all really bad to be breathing in. It's not like we were "designed" to breathe in "organic" smoke. It's all bad.