Chemicals in Wood Smoke Emissions-Letter

Daily Herald
Paddock Publications
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Take a look at what we're breathing
Published: 10/13/2007 11:56 PM

Now, when taking a breath of air, suburban community residents have the following enter their (and their family's) lungs involuntarily due to emissions from wood-burning outside and inside fireplaces: benzene, normal alkanes, triterpenoids, dehydroabietic acid, isopimaric acid, lupenone, friedelin chlorinated dioxins, carbon monoxide, methane, aldehydes, formaldehyde, acrolein, propionaldehyde, butryaldehyde, acetaldehyde, furfural, substituted furans, benzene, alkyl benzenes, toluene, acetic acid, formic acid, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, methyl chloride, naphthalene, substituted napthalenes, oxygenated monoaromatics, guaiacol and derivatives, phenol and derivatives, syringol and derivatives, catechol and derivatives, particulate organic carbon, oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), fluorene, phenamhrene, anthracene, methylanthracenes, fluoranthene , pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzofluoranthenes, benzo(e)pyrene, benzo(a)pyrene, perylene, ideno (1,2,3cd)pyrene, benz(ghi)perylene coronene, dibenzo(a,h)pyrene, retene, dibenz(a,h)anthracene , and trace elements: including sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon. If you want to breathe healthy air instead, let your elected officials know.

Join others that also want to save our air and our health at www.breathehealthyair.blogspot.com/. Don't be assaulted by unneeded and unnecessary wood-burning emissions!

Elk Grove Village, Illinois

E-mail address---breathe.healthy.air@gmail.com