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Wood Smoke Abstracts of Significant Papers

• "The Economic Value of Quantifiable Ozone and PM10 Related Health Effects in the San Francisco Bay Area" Jane Hall, Victor Brajer, The Institute for Economic and Environmental Studies, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92634, October 1994
  This entry is the executive summary from the Final Report to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District of the extensive costs associated with Particulate Pollution and by implication - wood smoke. The report estimates the cost of PM10 pollution in the Bay Area to be $2 billion. The amazing thing is that the BAAQMD has ignored this report which they sponsered. Order the entire paper from the BAAQMD.
• "Real-Time Monitoring of Airborne Particles" , Mary J. Rozenberg, Inhalation Toxicology, Taylor & Francais, Bristol, PA, Vol. 7, No.5, July 1995., pg 833
  Results of measurements in an upper class residetial neighborhood in San Francisco Bay Area.
• "Environmental Impact of Residential Wood Combustion Emissions and its Implications " , John A. Cooper, APCA JOURNAL, Vol. 30, No. 8, August 1980
  This is an early paper on the subject and one of the best.
• "The Relationship of Daily Mortality to Suspended Particulates in Santa Clara County, 1980-1986" , David Failey Environmental Health Perspectives 89:159-168 (1990), 1990
  This is one of the first papers Burning Issues came across and it shows how death rates in Santa Clara County parallel those of the infamous London fogs.
• "Woodsmoke Emissions: Effects on Host Pulmonary Immune Defense" , Judith T Zelikoff, New York University Medical Center, 1995
  This study of rats indicates that 1 hour of exposure to wood smoke reduces the immune system response 25%.
• Pet Dogs and Indoor Cancer RiskI- Home use of kerosene heaters and/or wood stoves, storage of solvents/pesticides in house, and use of flea sprays were all associated with significantly greater risk of nasal cancer in the dogs.- John Bukowski Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 1998 Part A; 54:579-591.