{"id":12157,"date":"2024-08-03T19:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2024-08-03T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:05:48","slug":"how-to-stop-wildfire-smoke-damaging-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=12157","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop Wildfire Smoke Damaging Your Health"},"content":{"rendered":"


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THIS ARTICLE IS<\/span> republished from<\/em> The Conversation<\/em><\/a> under a<\/em> Creative Commons license<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

When wildfires rage, the immediate threat is obvious\u2014but smoke from the fires actually kills far more people than the flames.<\/p>\n

As fires become more frequent, that smoke is leading to a public health crisis.<\/p>\n

In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, we found that wildfire smoke likely contributed to more than 52,000 premature deaths<\/a> across California alone from 2008 to 2018, with an economic impact<\/a> from the deaths of more than $430 billion.<\/p>\n

Previous studies have examined the short-term health risks from wildfire smoke, but few have assessed how exposure to wildfire smoke over years adds up to shorten human lives.<\/p>\n

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