Magazines and newspapers exist to sell the products of their advertisers. Look at an issue of Architectural Digest, you will find as many as thirty pictures of fireplaces. Of those at least half will be lit and eight or nine will be in major polluted metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Sunset magazine editors were educated to the woodsmoke problem yet chose to ignore the fact that it is killing people. They continue to promote wood burning and advertise the ambiance of the hearth including articles about backyard cooking over wood.
Catalogs simmer with fairy tale pictures for products modeled in front of a roaring fire.
They are increasingly filled with petroleum based candle products to burn. It appears that a sub-population is addicted to combustion byproducts and they are encouraged by the media, salesmen, real estate agents, and our own government. Many of this group are former smokers. They burn daily even when the weather is warm, yet they are cold because the carbon monoxide emmitted constricts their blood flow. I measured woodburning restaurants and found the same levels of smoke as in smoking restaurants.