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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1981)
Wood stoves linked to cancer; what next? SEATTLE (AP) — Warning Smoke from wood-burning stoves may be hazardous to your health Experts say the modern, airtight wood stove helps conserve wood, but can be hard on the lungs Yet people don't seem concerned because burning wood is an attractive alternative to more expensive types of home heating "Wood gives people a certain in dependence.' says Ron Schaafsma who builds Country Stoves in Auburn, Wash "They like that They don't seem to mind the smoke, even though it could be unhealthy," Officials in Washington only recently started examining the situation The state is cooperating in a federal Environ mental Protection Agency study that has been underway since January and will be completed no earlier than next month, said Ken Lepic an EPA technical adviser in Seattle Although a wood stove smoke "prob lem" has yet to be identified by air pollu tion sleuths in Washington, a 1980 sur vey by Puget Sound Power and Light Co found 83 percent of the utility's cus tomers use fireplaces, fireplace inserts or wood stoves Only 17 percent of the homes never used wood heat, the survey found Wood smoke should give people rea son to fear for their health, says David Bray, an EPA scientist in Seattle First, the burning of wood puts ex tremely small particles into the atmos phere "These can be sucked more deeply into the lungs than ordinary airborne particles like road dust or dust from mechanical manufacturing processes, he says Second, "many of the compounds are known and suspected carcinogens — cancer causing agents " Bray adds One known carcinogen, called benzo(a)pyr ene, is given off when any vegetable matter is burned — including tobacco Any amount of benzo(a)pyrene is pre sumed to be a health hazard, says Janet Chalupnik, environmental health direc tor for the Washington Lung Association The third health problem is that carbon monoxide is emitted when wood is burned, contributing to higher levels of the harmful gas where it is already a problem from automobile pollution Bray says Help for wood stove pollution may be on the way, says John Kowalczyk of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality The most recent development is an after-burner — a catalytic ignitor'' — that is supposed to consume smoke in the same way a catalytic converter burns up pollutants from automobile exhaust Corning Glass Works, which developed the automotive converter, has come up with the wood stove version But it only works when wood is burned Sulfur in coal fouls the device And even for wood studies in Oregon show the device is far from perfect because it fails to significantly reduce wood smoke pollutants The owner of one Seattle-area fireplace chain found a stove equipped with the device so inef fective that he shipped back his entire inventory of stoves He said he won't stock the catalytic ignitor until it's a proven product We didn't seem to come across anything that seemed to work much bet ter than if you simply used a smaller stove, burned dry wood and kept the firebox hot," Kowalczyk says Unfortunately, that defeats the whole idea of buying an airtight stove to burn wood slowly and efficiently Such stoves can take up to 12 hours to burn a load of wood — little more than a very smoky smolder But Kowalczyk questions whether the device really can burn the smoke at as high a temperature as its proponents claims If the device is unable to maintain a constant 500 degree temperature in the seconday chamber, unburned pollutants win simply flow into the air — and clog the converter If Oregon officials find an ignitor that does work well to cut down pollutants and allow efficient wood burning the state may require it in all wood stoves Kowalczyk says Classifieds BUILD YOUR OWN KAYAK AND SAVE* Ar organizational meeting to get a kayuf building class off the ground ir> sponsored by the Outdoor Program Tuesday Nov 10.7 pm at the Outdoor Program For more info call 686-4?65 517 11 10 PHOTOGRAPHERS The EMU Cultural f orum is requesting portfolios to be reviewed for future shows r tr>e Apeture Gaiter y Bung five mounted prints to the Cultural forum ottice Suite 2 EMU that you fee* are representative ot your work Deadline november 1 ? 406 111? Students tor a Nuclear -free future and the Survival Center sponsor a DIE IN Nuclear War is no longer unthinkable It will happen unless we prevent if Remember there is a bomb for Eugene too We w»i! lie on the floor in mock death to remind everyone what hat happened and may happen again Music slides poetry street theatre NOV 11 EMU Lobby 12-1 pm Come Jo*n (Die-In) wtth ut' 540 1111 Tonight HARVEY Jamf. Stewart 8 PM KOZY Cable TV 11 SOARING ANGELSONG 1110 EMU CULTURAL FORUM 8 FOOD SERVICE present WEDNES DAY NIGHT JAZZ GIG and SPAGHETTI FEED .99/plate until Tuesflay evening $1 50 day ot teed (no exceptions) All drinks exlra Tickets available at the EMU Main Desk ON STAGE St. Germain Trio Music Irom 5 30-7 30 pm Dining Room food served from cafeteria Irom 5 30-7 pm 536 11-11 CINEMA 7 10th & Olive-Atrium Building 887-0733 STARTS SATURDAY THROUGH NOV 12 BAD TIMING/ A SENSUAL OBSESSION Nnw given the Eugene showcase it deserves Bad Timing ts about the destructive nature of obsessive fove In Austria an American psy chologist (Art Gartunkelj falls in love with enigmatic, beauty Milena (Theresa Russell) Ale* s insistence on knowing everything leads to his disillusion in Nicholas Roeg s complex ravisihing woo Rated X. over 18 only. SHOWING 7:30 PM Red Adm Mat Sun 2 pm THE INNOCENT Visconti s final film is a masterpiece ot sensual atmospfiere exposing the decay ot an era and a marriage Giancarlo Giannim, Laura Antonelli SHOWING 9:30 PM _ MO 11-12 THE BIJOU THE BEST IMAGE THE HOTTEST SOUND SYSTEM THE BEST THEATRE IN TOWN 482 E 13th (at Ferry St.) Admission $2.50 Monday $2 with student ID 8 current tee card Ends Wednesday Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory The lilm that first brought Wmley Kubrick (2001 A Space Odyssey) both wide acclaim and controversy Paths of Glory is a mon ument to the anti human aspects of war Based on a true incident in WW1 in which an entire f rench Army division was accused of cowardice a capitol offense with Marlon Brando in BURN! Gillow Pontecorvo traces the evolution ot a slave rebellion in 191h century Haiti, in this biting denunciation ot the corruption ot colon lalism Marlon Brando give a bravura petor marice as a cynical agent provocateur sent by the English to stir up the rebellion Paths 5 30. 9 ?0 pm Burn 7 15pm Sunday Matinee 3:30 pm Next The Decline ot Western Civilization Nov 12 18 494 11-11 JAPANESE FILM SERIES FLOATING CLOUDS Dir M Naruse Tuesday. Nov 10. 7 pm 177 Lawrence Admission FREE English subtitles 52? 11-10 Get ready Eugene, The world's number one laser show, LASERIUM is coming here NOV. 19 EMU BALLROOM Tickets now on sale $? students, $3 50 general public at EMU Main Desk and Everybody s 537 11-10 CHRIS “HEFTY" LITTLE t's tashionabie ’ be latei I thank you tor our evening of caviar and champagne i had a most enjoyatwe time Poverty sucks Love SCOTTER Phi Delt - Chris F. Thanks tor the wine I'm psyched tor this year with you as my Big Bro i :>ve you' M sis Cyd 11-10 LAYAWAY FOR CHRISTMAS! 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