You are misinforming the public and making light of the health effects of woodsmoke. The raw truth is that you don't have them. There has been a revolution in the scientific understanding of fine Particulate Matter and it's effect on health. I invite you to the revolution. Please bring some hope to your readers.
All smoke is a real and present danger and is in the most part preventable.
Inhalation Toxicology July 1995 as the Proceedings of The Colloquium on Mortality and Morbidity. My findings show that the highest levels of pollution that most people will ever be exposed to is in their own neighborhoods and they occur after ten o'clock at night and escalate until midnight. This assault of deadly particles from home burning fills every home yet fewer than one in six house holds ever burn anything. Dr. Wayne Ott is replicating my work with a full year of data and it shows a mountain of late nighttime carcinogens from woodburning during the winter months and no detectable PAH in the summer. When you look at the levels of PAH from the winter evening burning keep in mind that the Bay area has one of the highest breast cancer rates in the country and Santa Clara County has one of the highest prostate cancer rates.