Women Health Online

Smoke from open fires and dirty cookstoves used by almost half the world’s population is linked to severe pneumonia, especially among women and young children, a new study has found.

Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley carried out a randomized controlled trial in Guatemala that compared households with traditional open woodfires to those that had a woodstove with a chimney that vented smoke to the outside.

The researchers found that the number of cases of severe pneumonia was a third lower among children in homes with smoke-reducing chimneys attached to their cookstoves.

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