Reducing air pollution from wood stoves may increase life expectancy

The report is not very helpful given the diferent results for men and women and the lack of inclusion of the lifestyles of the population being studied.

I wonder how the "experts" will handle the bushfire smoke; maybe they could recommend a ban on bushfires.
No doubt this sort of "study" will be used to pressure the parliamentary lapdogs (who should be representing the people) of the energy companies to ban cheap heating from wood fired stoves.
Wood fires produce far less health damaging smoke than the mining, generation, storing, transportation and delivery of other forms of heating and energy.
Derek

Surely PM exposure would have a delayed impact on mortality rates, wouldn't it?  Those people that died between 2001 and 2007 from cardio. or respiratory malfunction could perhaps be a function of their exposure to PM during their lifetime, isn't it?

Why in NSW do we still allow sugar cane burning for 6 months of the year,the  co2 output is the equivalent of a coal power station operating on full power for 1 year. At present although taxpayers have put millions into upgrading facilities to allow green cutting for no logical reason cane farmers refuse to do so,long live the carbon tax.

So conversely what you are saying is that every time I go out with my crew to fight a bushfire, I am reducing my life expectancy.
We cant stop fighting them so someone needs to come up with a breathing protection system for us out there on the fire line.

If we were at all serious about renewable energy, there'd be masses of money spent on improving wood fires.
After all, wood is a renewable resource, isn't it?
Not like coal, oil or other fossil fuels, which will inevitably run out.
Remember, that electricity, to a large extent, is generated through burning coal in power stations.

All they do is bombard us with wood heaters being environmentally bad. In europe you have wood heaters burning super efficiently, many times more efficient than here, but here all we have is these big old wood heaters that resemble washing machines.
Rather than paying extra taxes to buy better heaters from overseas why not drop the tax and help the environment if you're serious. Our dollar is at maximum exchange rate with excellent buying power and all we get is the same old same old at a new increased price.
Get real, wood is renewable, and when burnt correctly is not an environmental issue. Like the posts above stated, what about all the back burning the DSE makes, and bushfires. In the old days we were allowed to pickup timber twigs in old reserves which reduced fire hazards.....but the greenies in the wisdom have stopped all that too....
Im sure if we opened up the market by dropping these import taxes and then some the local boys would pull up their pants and improve.......and if the government was really serious we would have no malor issues at all.....
I wont even go into electricity and coal.

Typical ambient wood smoke bad: 98.5% suggestive - comparative epidemiology and cost benefit studies, where too many variables are ignored, predetermined conclusions are skewed towards and the sponsors desired conclusions are always expressed by their authors. 1.5% toxicology studies where the scientists give us accurate information and inconclusive results. This is state power and gas company, energy futures market, top down funded JUNK. Focus on the real industrial polluters and give up on carbon offsetting pish like all this is. You won't take away peoples self sufficient, carbon neutral, sustainable, cost effective energy choices!