The EPA warns that there is no safe level of these carcinogens. Breathing them increases your risk of cancer. Wood smoke contains hundreds of chemicals. . Wood smoke also contains lead, cadmium and arsenic. Even unburned sawdust is listed as a human carcinogen Group 1.
Wood smoke can damage sperm and cause birth defects.
Wood smoke particles are very tiny. Picture of wood particle taken out of a women's lung is on our website. The smoke comes inside even non-burning homes. The EPA estimates that wood smoke is 12 times more carcinogenic that equal amounts of tobacco smoke. Wood smoke attacks our body cells up to forty times longer than tobacco smoke.