Indoor air pollution from New Zealand’s 523,000 wood burners was estimated to account for 446 hospital admissions for heart and lung problems, and 101 early deaths annually, in a country with a population of just over 5 million people. Breathing fumes from gas cooking indoors created more than 1,000 hospital admissions, 208 early deaths and more than 3,000 new cases of childhood asthma each year.
I lived in a neighborhood where a bunch of people used wood stoves for secondary heating and there were definitely certain days where it was overcast and humid and there would literally be a smog layer over the whole neighborhood and my asthma would go nuts. I hated that shit and begged my immediate neighbors to not burn wood and they looked at me like I was asking them to cut off an ear.