Smoke exposure following domestic pollution: Prevention and community medicine improvement

Abstract

Result: Smoke pollution is linked to lower-respiratory diseases, heart disease, damage to the brain, liver and kidney, bronchitis and pneumonia. Toxic gases in air due to smoke pollution increases the burden of diseases, including plants getting stunted, water scarcity and water drying up, which could exacerbate domestic poverty and lead to the inability to cover community medicine expenses in many countries. The risks partly arise from inadequately ventilated stoves, burning biomass fuels, such as wood fuel, dung or coal, which impact phenomena that influence the accumulation of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, and the accompanying weather changes.