Citizens for Environmental Health

Citizens for Environmental Health

About Us.....

Our Commitment---

We will support citizens with current information about health related environmental issues, and through our united efforts, will promote vitality, health, harmony and sustainability. Together, we reach forward with informed vision and fortitude. Citizens for environmental health act in the pursuit of one positive intention, to do whatever it takes to safeguard all life.

We are committed to all aspects of prevention. Our focus is on the air we breathe; on the grass we walk and play on, as well as how we use household energy, transportation, and the safety of consumer products. We realize the importance of being able to trust that the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. The policies we endorse serve to ensure maximum health in healthy environments. We realize the need to rethink several beliefs--and time is of essence. We are committed to exploring behaviors, which have become habits. We see the need to evaluate our present actions, as these are the underlying cause of the many challenges that we face in these times of climate crisis.

We are dedicated to safeguarding all life. We are committed to helping citizens learn current and respected information so that together we discover a better, happier, joyful, and safer way to live. We are deeply committed to protecting the health of all citizens, especially the children. We embrace ways of strengthening communication about what we think we know, how we think and what we believe we know, so that we act with cautious stewardship to ensure clean, safe tobacco- and chimney-smoke free air.

We Believe---

We believe that we have borrowed the earth and the air from our children and we must give it back clean and inviting and as safe as possible. We believe that we must do whatever it takes to ensure smoke free air, since air is essential to life.

We believe strongly in the importance of protecting the environment and citizens’ health. We are especially committed to the importance of the right to breathe smoke free air. We believe that living in safe communities is our vital right. In the interest of social justice, being free to breathe clean chimney-smoke-free air is a given right and that this right is not to be compromised. We believe that clean air is essential to life and to healthy neighborhoods. We recognize that it is our duty and responsibility as custodians, to protect children from all dangers. We acknowledge that chimney smoke is a carcinogen, a grave and unnecessary danger to children. We believe that all smoke including EPA smoke is a critical health risk and this unnecessary pollution must be stopped. The present is our gift to future generations; therefore it is our duty to embrace the safest and highest environmental standards possible. We encourage all organizations, regardless of faith, or geographical borders, to perpetuate positive actions. We invoke linear togetherness that encourages shared vision, mutual arm in arm support, and activities, that unite and guide us as we courageously face challenges of global warming. We acknowledge the challenge of changing old ways behaviors and recognize that sacrifices must be made to adjust to climate change new realities. We strongly promote The Precautionary Principle in practice and policy, therefore we expect and oblige our elected officials to act to ensure sustainability, and to do all in their power to the health of all citizens. We expect policy that reduces risks and ensures safe sustainable environments. One can truly make a difference through informed forward thinking, political will, transparency, responsibility and, of course, doing what is right. Our motto: Together for Better. We invite you to join as we believe we must act with urgency today, to do what is must be done, “For the sake of the kids”, for now and forever.

Who we are----

We are a preventive action-oriented environmental association, dedicated to ensuring the maximum protection of all citizens, all life, in the healthiest and safest environment possible.

Our Motto----

“Together for Better!” THEME 1- Clean air is essential to life


Our Mission----

WHAT WE DO NOW

As a global citizens' group, we, Citizensforenvironmentalhealth.com, commit to being forerunners of change. With respect for the earth, and all life, we are spirited and above all determined to make a difference. We are enthusiastically dedicated to sharing current information on prevention, on how to act, so as to safeguard air quality. We are determined to expand public knowledge about all issues of prevention.

Currently, our focus is wood smoke. We provide our guests and members with vital information on this subject. We ensure that this information is accurate and that the source is highly respected. We access reference material from the most qualified institutions and ensure that it is informative, factual and current. We assist in the expansion of awareness by providing material that is non-biased, from a reliable source, and that it furthers the Community Right to Know. We provide information that has been documented over the last two decades. We provide documented reference material from thousands of studies on health risks and wood smoke pollution. We demonstrate in these documents the critical health risks facing citizens who are placed in harm’s way from breathing neighbourhood chimney smoke. We recognize citizens have been denied this knowledge and believe it is crucial to provide this information to all citizens. We clearly oppose all wood burning and stress the concern for the dangers of misguided false information about EPA Stove Smoke. We are determined to reveal the truths about total carcinogenic emissions in EPA and all neighbourhood smoke. We realize that we, as responsible citizens, and as an informed society, must stop the dissemination of false information. We discourage and demand a stop to this fatal habit.

We expose issues of non-disclosure, EPA conflict of interest and government inaction with regard to smoke emissions. We maintain and uphold citizens’ right to truth and transparency. We are committed to expanding information and suggest that, by denying Community Right to Know, as well as ignoring the Precautionary Principle, by limiting access to information, ignoring vital facts and providing information that is biased, the government is exposing innocent citizens, especially children, to ambient air which threatens their very lives.

Our mission is to ensure that publications and promotional material from industry and government institutions address the truths about emissions, are transparent and provide clear testimony about the false claims of up to 9O% of emissions that in reality are less than one percent, these fraudulent designed statements pose critical risk, can cause mortal harm .
We wish to alert the public about the suggestive false claims about smoke from Certified EPA Stoves. We will ensure that this vital information is no longer hidden, but, on the contrary, becomes common knowledge.

We oppose all wood burning; acknowledge the risk and danger to life that that results from smoke pollution. We are strongly opposed to the burning of wood as a secondary or primary heating source, and work towards ensuring public rightful access to smoke free air. We maintain that the practice of burning wood must be curtailed, as it constitutes a grave and unnecessary danger to society. We oppose all wood burning, except in emergency situations.

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Welcome to all citizens from all corners of the world.

Here, at Citizens for Environmental Health, we invite you to take hands and with widespread energy and through groundbreaking intention, we will awaken to a new positive and purposeful direction.

Welcome to where a new thought form will be recognized and, from where, instead of failure, we will discover, manifest, and create change. We acknowledge that the hardest problem to fix is the one we do not know exists.

We know that air is essential to all life. However most people know very little about the air that we breathe in wood smoke neighbourhoods Unfortunately, people have not been told much about this smoke polluted air. So, with this site, we will do what we must do to give ourselves the best chance to live cancer risk free and replenish our neighbourhoods with safe smoke free air. Welcome to where we will replenish the air.

Smoke is the antithesis of air. Smoke, wood burning, we have romanticized and somehow taken for granted, as harmless. Far from harmless, harmful smoke, produced from burning tree parts in 2008, is the world’s third highest source of pollution and this smoke is a real threat to our health and all life on the planet. This burning smoke emits billions of tons of emissions, carcinogenic chemicals, carbon, benzene, fumes, dioxin and hexacholorbenzene into the air that we breathe each day.

Little is known about this second hand neighbourhood smoke. Yet, thousands of studies conclude that residential smoke is a major cause of all illness, heart disease, stroke, asthma, diabetes, all cancers, including breast cancer and even death. Smoke produced from residential wood burning costs 24% of the total green house gases in Canada each year. In Quebec , where emissions have grown 20% in the last five years, this smoke causes 55% of particulate matter, a deadly molecular soot pollution that enters deep into the lungs. And, all that smoke, people know very little about. People deserve and have the right to know. We think differently, we act more responsibly, when we know the facts.

Residential Wood Burning Smoke Pollution has become a primary cause of carbon emissions, benzene and dioxin, and is among the worse and the highest contributor of pollution in the world. Wood burning deforestation is not the way of the new earth that we see. We can change.

Welcome to where we learn about how we can change the thoughts that have not been our servant but our ignorant master. Wood burning is the cause of over, 90% of winter pollution, however, this pollution in Canada , is caused by only 4% of people. Most people however, are not even aware that this smoke is a serious health threat. Issues about smoke been silenced for years, so, most do not know that the smoke from their chimney causes suffering to their neighbours, triggers asthma, heart attacks, and stroke and claims thousands of innocent lives in Canada alone, each year. Unknown to many, as Devra Davies stated in her celebrated book, Cutting Through the Smoke, “ Pollution never shows up on death certificates.” According to Health Canada , thousands of Canadians die each year from smoke carcinogenic exposure. Neighbourhood smoke is the silent killer that we know little about. Why have we been, for so long, kept in the dark about this smoke?

The devastation caused by the toxins in smoke is causing environmental havoc and destruction to all living things. We must change. It is time we clear the air.

Welcome to where we take responsibility for the safety of our children. Asthma is the highest cause of death in children. Let us act to make sure the kids breathe air that is not a toxic mixture of smoke. Children are at the highest risk. Can we allow smoke, fumes and chemicals to be constantly emitted into their growing bodies? Smoke is scarring their lungs and accumulating in blood cells of our children. With this true coming together for better, we make certain that the children are all able to live more safely, free from all cigarette and wood burning smoke. We owe it to our kids! We will act.

As a mother of a son who has seen the face of cancer first hand, I ask you to join us in this movement where we believe that the best treatment is prevention. Whether for cancer, lung disease, asthma, stroke and heart disease and Breast Cancer prevention from avoidable risks is crucial. We invite you help us voice the need and to fight for change so that citizens, parents, and children will not be made to suffer environmental cancer. Here is where asthma, coughs and lung infections, caused from breathing smoke will not get a place to start. We can prevent all the environmental cancer and diseases caused from breathing smoke-toxic neighbourhood dirty air. Is burning wood worth the cost? We Adopt Prevention as the Best Cure!

We together can and must reduce risks and prevent exposure to all smoke. Reducing risks is breathing smoke free.

We invite you to become informed about an unknown subject, this silent killer that is causing illness, great distress and suffering and especially endangering our children. Smoke is placing kids at very heightened risk. Smoke from chimneys is causing irreversible environmental damage and placing our health and the health of the unborn at heightened risk.

Vital to changing is the urgent need to address is the lack of science and lack of integrity in EPA Certified Stoves. Unless we awaken to the facts, as is stated in the critical review of EPA Integrity, May 22, 2008 in which, Senate House Leader, Waxman states that EPA decisions “are not based on Science nor regulations, but are adopted by the White House for political reasons” we will not see real change. We need to dissect the myth of this power industry and see that the truths about EPA Certified stoves. Independent tests (INTERTEC) conclude stove emissions show an increase of 400% dioxin in EPA chimney smoke. As with all emissions, studies conclude none, no emissions are reduced in home use of stoves. Emissions are reduced in lab testing only. The industry owns the labs! The industry certifies itself! People need to know the studies and reviews prove that testing is not based on scientific facts.

There is no reduction in concentration but what is to be made caution is the fact that Dioxin in smoke exposure is placing women at risk to develop Breast Cancer. Walking in smoke is like smoking 16 cigarettes in one half hour!

We must stop this smoke that is placing women at risk. Studies prove carcinogens from breathing this smoke accumulate in the blood cells and fatty tissue, causing changes, directly impacting and increasing risks for women to develop Breast Cancer. It is urgent. We must act.


Together we can and must reduce these avoidable risks and prevent exposure to all carcinogenic smoke. Reducing risks is breathing smoke free.

We acknowledge the respected government and institutional research that proves that wood smoke is more toxic than cigarette smoke. We extend a welcome to our institutions and government agencies. We expect and oblige our elected policy makers to adopt policy that is, the best and the safest policy, that is informed, and that is clearly the most forward thinking, sustainable health based, environmental policy.

Nothing less is acceptable. PREVENTION is the BEST CURE.

Health must be number one in policy.

We realize that, unfortunately, people have been kept in the dark about neighbourhood smoke.

Seeing that people are victims of not knowing much about this second hand smoke, we want to make a difference in getting the information out there. We welcome citizens, policy makers and the media to a place where people are respectively given access to the facts, where they can make informed decisions, become healthier citizens, live and breathe in health and enjoy the best quality of life. We ensure that life is given the best chance, so that people can live happier, longer and better, breather clean and safe air in their homes and neighbourhoods. People must not be forced to breathe neighbours’ toxic smoke in their own homes. People have the right to live smoke free. No one should be able to take your breath away.

We believe and do our best and will continue to see that the information is made easily available, so good willed citizens can act responsibly, stop polluting with smoke, and do what is right for our environment and our families. We must protect the air for future generations.


We invite all citizens from worldwide communities to learn, share in the dialogue, chat with each other, support, and participate, so that we informed and determined to change. We must take a new direction.

We know it is time for change and we believe that through willpower and awareness, citizens in communities will engage in change, and will help each other live more safely, in smoke free neighbourhoods. Climate change is upon us. We may not have a second chance.

Wood burning smoke is threat to our well-being and future generations. Witnessing the raging earth now struggling to combat climate change, the world food shortage, the hungry desolate people displaced, those before our eyes, who, by the millions, are falling victims to the ravishes of climate change, we too, may soon become one of them. We humans are the fragile. We are the meek and the humble. We must change. We ask each other to think about today and tomorrow’s children. They need us. What are we leaving for our grandchildren who shall inherit the air and the earth? We had a beautiful world handed to us what can we do to now give our children the same beautiful earth? Certainly dirty smoky air is not what our children should be handed, nor expect from us.

We need to act towards change and courageously create a better, cleaner and safer world. It is time for change. We have no choice. Please join together, with Citizens for Environmental Health, join a world where we work towards a wide awakened conscious. Becoming a member, if you wish to donate, we appreciate your help. In joining, you will receive our newsletter, and we will unite our voice. We can see that this is so important. We have never needed each other more than we do today. Time is of essence. Welcome! Become a member. It’s free. The best things in life are free. Our health is our most precious resource. Our earth, our air, what we need to enjoy life. We recognize that is we may stand to lose.. Now is the best time we have. Let’s get to work, create hope and make this a cleaner world. Let’s make successful change happen. We can and we will make a new, safer, smoke free world, a reality. Let’s do it for the kids!

Welcome! Let’s do it! We can and we will.

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