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
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