Indoor air pollution in developing countries and acute lower respiratory infections in children

By Kirk R. Smith, J. Samet, I. Romieu, N. Bruce. Thorax, 2000

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Indoor Air Pollution, Related Human Diseases, and Recent Trends in the Control and Improvement of Indoor Air Quality (2020, background): “high rates of chronic bronchitis of cooking mothers [142].”
Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves (2013, background): “…combustion in traditional cookstoves and indoor air pollution are the subject of large literatures in epidemiology and in environmental science (Smith et al., 2000; Ezzati & Kammen, 2001a; Ezzati & Kammen, 2001b), but this literature has largely focused on the dose-response relationships…”
The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth (2012, background): “Improved cooking stoves could reduce indoor air pollution by as much as 95% (Smith et al. 2000, cited in Sathaye et al. 2007).”
Dental calculus reveals potential respiratory irritants and ingestion of essential plant-based nutrients at Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave Israel (2016, positive): “Smoke can cause reactive coughing and eye irritation in addition to potentially more serious lung problems, in particular among children (Smith et al., 2000).”
Comparative quantification of health risks: Conceptual framework and methodological issues (2003, background): “Consider for example infant and child mortality due to acute respiratory infections (ARI), which is especially high among malnourished children, as a result of exposure to indoor smoke from solid fuels [66, 67 ].”