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Absolutely HATE, HATE, HATE it when some people do this. Makes the air suffocatingly smokey. Burns my eyes, makes me cough and jeopardizing our health.
We ban indoor smoking but somehow allow people to create smoke that pollutes the air for miles all around. Fresh, clean air is already on short supply here in NJ, do we really need to make things worse by burning wood?
All because some people want to save a few bucks on their heating bill.
Some people aren't saving money, but just enjoying a fireplace. I like the smell of burning wood, but when I first smell it, a little alarm goes off because I had a house fire once, and it brings that back. It's just a second, then I'm OK.
Then again, I'm a former smoker who still enjoys the smell of cigarettes--outside only.
Absolutely HATE, HATE, HATE it when some people do this. Makes the air suffocatingly smokey. Burns my eyes, makes me cough and jeopardizing our health.
We ban indoor smoking but somehow allow people to create smoke that pollutes the air for miles all around. Fresh, clean air is already on short supply here in NJ, do we really need to make things worse by burning wood?
All because some people want to save a few bucks on their heating bill.
Are you sure the smoke you smelled was from a chimney and not a brush fire? There are houses in my neighborhood that burn wood and I can rarely smell it. A couple residential chimneys is not going to cause smoke "for miles all around". If the people are burning leaves or other brush in their backyards, then that is considered "open burning" and is illegal in most places.
Absolutely HATE, HATE, HATE it when some people do this. Makes the air suffocatingly smokey. Burns my eyes, makes me cough and jeopardizing our health.
We ban indoor smoking but somehow allow people to create smoke that pollutes the air for miles all around. Fresh, clean air is already on short supply here in NJ, do we really need to make things worse by burning wood?
All because some people want to save a few bucks on their heating bill.
Traffic jams that occur everyday in NJ are bad for our health. Lawn mowers are especially bad. Live downwind side of a busy road?
Fireplace and wood stove smoke is not 'smokey' and they burn clear, smell nice.
Unless you are standing around a campfire downwind and burning paper, plastic coated copper wire or green brush there is no heavy smoke.
"The Ringelmann scale is a scale for measuring the apparent density of Smoke. It was developed by Maximilien Ringelmann of La Station d'Essais de Machines in Paris in 1888. It has a 5 levels of density inferred from a grid of black lines on a white surface which, if viewed from a distance, merge into known shades of grey."
Are you sure the smoke you smelled was from a chimney and not a brush fire? There are houses in my neighborhood that burn wood and I can rarely smell it. A couple residential chimneys is not going to cause smoke "for miles all around". If the people are burning leaves or other brush in their backyards, then that is considered "open burning" and is illegal in most places.
No, it's not burning leaves or brush fire. The smokey smell only happens when it gets cold. For instance, when it was 60° the other day, no smokey smell. At night when it gets colder, it comes back.
I also see the piles of chopped wood in some people's backyards (under a tarp to keep them dry).
If the smokey air is so pervasive, then obviously there are more than a couple of homes doing it.
Absolutely HATE, HATE, HATE it when some people do this. Makes the air suffocatingly smokey. Burns my eyes, makes me cough and jeopardizing our health.
We ban indoor smoking but somehow allow people to create smoke that pollutes the air for miles all around. Fresh, clean air is already on short supply here in NJ, do we really need to make things worse by burning wood?
All because some people want to save a few bucks on their heating bill.
what right do you figure "we" have to tell someone not to burn wood in their homes? do you claim that america is a free country or do you understand that is a lie and you prefer it that way?
Traffic jams that occur everyday in NJ are bad for our health. Lawn mowers are especially bad. Live downwind side of a busy road?
Fireplace and wood stove smoke is not 'smokey' and they burn clear, smell nice.
Unless you are standing around a campfire downwind and burning paper, plastic coated copper wire or green brush there is no heavy smoke.
"The Ringelmann scale is a scale for measuring the apparent density of Smoke. It was developed by Maximilien Ringelmann of La Station d'Essais de Machines in Paris in 1888. It has a 5 levels of density inferred from a grid of black lines on a white surface which, if viewed from a distance, merge into known shades of grey."
Just because there are other types of pollutions does not mean the pollution from the burning is good for you. There is no way you can ever convince me that the smoke from burning wood is good or doesn't harm your lungs, cardiovascular/respiratory system in some way.
I think you inconsiderate people burn wood and are just trying to justify it.
what right do you figure "we" have to tell someone not to burn wood in their homes? do you claim that america is a free country or do you understand that is a lie and you prefer it that way?
For real? We have a ton of laws regulating what you can or can't do in your home. You act like this is anything unusual or out-of-place.
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