For the complete version with references visit our web site and look under Fact Sheets. Soot kills close to 3 million people world wide.
Respiratory illness is the largest killer of infants.
At one hospital night shift nurses in the neo-natal intensive care unit have developed severe asthma and respiratory difficulties due to the smoke entering the hospital. One nurse linked a baby's death with her first major asthma attack. This case is pending trial. Athletes, newborns, children, the chronically ill, and the elderly die prematurely due to smoke pollution. Higher smoke levels cause higher chronic respiratory illness and hospitalizations.