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An AQI of 250 plus is equivalent to 7 cigarettes a day: https://woods.stanford.edu/news/health-impacts-wildfire-smoke#:~:text=Communities%20exposed%20to%20wild
by iancmceachern 2y ago
An AQI of 250 plus is equivalent to 7 cigarettes a day:
https://woods.stanford.edu/news/health-impacts-wildfire-smoke#:~:text=Communities%20exposed%20to%20wildfire%20smoke,were%20outside%20the%20whole%20time https://woods.stanford.edu/news/health-impacts-wildfire-smok....
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoIt depends how much time you spend outside? I’m just thinking back to my days in Beijing when 250 PPI was not a bad day.
- iancmceachern 2y agoThe parent commenter was referring to camping, therefore all day.
- mgarfias 2y agoWhat about an AQI of ~1500? Yeah, we lived through that here 4 years ago during the fires here in Oregon, while waiting to find out if we’d told to evac.
- hollerith 2y agoOnce the AQI exceeds 300 or so, I would run an air purifier at home (keeping the windows closed) and wear an N95 mask whenever I venture outdoors. Air filtration works very well for smoke (and other particulates).