Cooking
Smoke: An Unrecognized Source
of Disease and Death
¡Cooking smoke kills over 1.6 million people each year, mostly women & children, according to a recent report
lAcute lower respiratory
infection
lChronic
bronchitis
lLung
cancer
lAsthma,
TB etc.
Source:
Smoke – the Killer in the Kitchen, H. Warwick & A. Doig, ITDG
http://www.itdg.org/?id=smoke_index
A
quadruple tragedy: cooking smoke,
malnutrition,
child orphaned by AIDS,
unused
sun rays