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Millions Die From Indoor Smoke

  • November 28, 2003

Half the world's population rely on solid fuel like wood or coal to cook their food. More than half the people who cook on biomass live in India and China, but in many sub-Saharan African countries more than 90 percent of people do so. Tragically, smoke from indoor cooking fires kills one person every 20 seconds in the developing world. Inefficient stoves can be as bad for health as smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. For the Thanksgiving holiday I met a native Nigerian, Herbert, who...