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----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:08 PM
Subject: [Biofuel] U.N.: Indoor Pollution Kills 1.6M Per Year
> http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=168171
> ABC News:
> U.N.: Indoor Pollution Kills 1.6M Per Year
>
> U.N. Calls Indoor Pollution Silent and Unreported Killer; Smoke
> Claims 1.6 Million Lives a Year
>
> GENEVA Oct. 15, 2004
> - About 1.6 million people are killed each year by indoor smoke from
> cooking fires in developing countries, U.N. agencies said Friday.
>
> "That's one life lost every 20 seconds to the 'killer in the
> kitchen,'" said a statement by the World Health Organization and the
> United Nations Development Program.
>
> "While the millions of deaths from well-known communicable diseases
> often make headlines, indoor air pollution remains a silent and
> unreported killer. Rural women and children are the most at risk."
>
> The agencies said nearly half of the world continues to cook with
> dung, wood, coal and other solid fuels in fireplaces and stoves that
> lack chimneys or vents to safely remove the smoke from the house.
>
>
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> "Smoke from burning these fuels gives off a poisonous cocktail of
> particles and chemicals," they said.
>
> People that aren't killed directly by the fumes can succumb to
> respiratory illnesses such as bronchitis and pneumonia brought on by
> the smoke.
>
> The agencies said a typical wood-fired cooking stove creates carbon
> monoxide and other noxious fumes at anywhere between seven and 500
> times over the allowable limits.
>
> "Day in day out, and for hours at a time, rural women and their
> children in particular are subjected to levels of smoke in their
> homes that far exceed international safety standards," the statement
> said.
>
> Hope for improvement comes from a growing network of experts and
> organizations that is finding innovative and affordable solutions
> using cleaner stoves, fuels and smoke hoods, the agencies said.
>
> "But this is just the beginning," they said. "We need the same
> attention paid to this killer in the kitchen as is paid to other
> major killers."
>
> Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
> material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
>
> ----
>
> http://www.healthcentral.com/news/NewsFullText.cfm?id=1505050
> Health News
>
> UN: Indoor Pollution Kills 1.6 Million Annually
>
> About 1.6 million people worldwide die each year from the effects of
> indoor pollution, two United Nations agencies reported Friday.
>
> "While the millions of deaths from well-known communicable diseases
> often make headlines, indoor air pollution remains a silent and
> unreported killer," according to a statement from the World Health
> Organization and the U.N. Development Program.
>
> The agencies said people in nearly half of the world continue to cook
> with wood, coal and other solid fuels in conditions that lack proper
> ventilation, according to an Associated Press account of the report.
> The resulting smoke and fumes contain a toxic cocktail of particles
> and chemicals, the report said. And people who don't die from the
> direct effects of the smoke often die from respiratory disease, the
> agencies added.
>
> A typical wood-fired cooking stove creates noxious fumes and smoke
> that are up to 500 times greater than international safety standards
> permit, the report said.
>
> -----
>
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>
> Last Updated: October 16, 2004
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