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Introduction

Contents

History

Emissions

Health effects

Exposure

Case study

Issues

Way forward

References  



General Links

1.    World Health Organisation : Guidelines for Air Quality 2000

2.    Burning Issues - America's premier wood smoke campaigning site
3.    Armidale Air Quality - Australia's premier wood smoke campaigning site
4.    UK air quality monitoring site
5.    UK  Health: Quantification of the Effects of Air Pollution on Health in the UK 1998
6.    Reveiw of Literature on residential firewood use, wood smoke and air toxics; Environment Australia 2002
7.    Hazardous Air Pollutant Monitoring in Christchurch, NZ; 2001.......PDF file
8.    European Union Air Quality site
9.     UK  national atmospheric emissions inventory
10.   UK domestic solid fuel emission factors
11.   USA Health Effects Institute
12.   UK Dept of Environment: air quality home page
13.   UK  Institute for Environment and Health - Air pollution
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15.   Air impacts : the health  and economic impact of air pollution
16.   UK government site explaining domestic smoke laws
17.   Smog review
18.  India Study
19.  Washington State Review
20.  National Resources Defense Council 
21.  Christchurch New Zealand
22.  Entlink indoor air
23.  Intergovernmental  Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
24.  Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
25.  The Science Lab
26.   USA Puget Sound clean air site

BBC News

Cancer alert for smoking parents 
Global warming  
Air pollution damages lungs of  unborn children 
Child cancer and air pollution 
Global dimming  
Mercury and crematoria 
Tobacco smoke harms children's brains 
Smoke Particles harm brain  
Durban's fight for clean air  
Benzene damages bone marrow  
Ozone causes premature deaths (JAMA report)
Particle pollution and heart disease   
Dead wood ecology  
Indoor smoke kills millions  
Candle smoke health threat 
Air pollution causes strokes 
Clean air reduces asthma 
Air pollution and cancer risk  
Indoor smoke   
Indoor coal smoke causes lung cancer 
Air pollution harms lungs of American teenagers 
Traffic pollution and heart attacks  
Indoor smoke kills 50 000 European children a year 
PM10's cause cot deaths  
Air pollution and cancer  
UK lung deaths twice european average  
Smoke particles thicken blood   
Air pollution causes 310 000 European deaths a year   



Other links 

America's agency for toxic substances and disease registry

ATSDR - Toxicological Profiles 

Monitoring air quality in the Paris region

Health, Environment and Work

Toxnet Resources 

Canadian air quality    

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons UK govt report

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Canadian health on air pollution

Wolverhampton member of parliament