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Wood is already known to be cancer causing (via inhaled sawdust). Smoke is not going to be any better, and the quantity of microplastics trees available won't r
by zdragnar 3y ago
Wood is already known to be cancer causing (via inhaled sawdust). Smoke is not going to be any better, and the quantity of microplastics trees available won't really move the needle on that.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoCan you give me some studies on that, assuming that the sawdust is from straight wood and not any form of wood beam which contains glues and treatments?
- mrangle 3y agoLook up any of the mountain of studies that connects air particulate, in general, to cancer. If you want to argue variables for air particulate's relationship to lung cancer, then more power to you.
- zdragnar 3y agohttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8266936/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8266936/ Money quote from the abstract: "The strongest association of exposure to wood dust and development of nasal cancer is observed in those occupations where workers are exposed to hard wood dust and chemical additives are not used." Note that the strongest association is when chemicals are NOT used - I suspect this might be more due to how people work the wood (less likely to sand particles board, more likely to wear protective gear) than the nature of the chemicals themselves. It does go on to say that various respiratory cancers are from both untreated and treated wood sawdust, but wood alone is well known to cause cancer.