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I would make the educated guess that the reason wood smoke is OK is because we have thousands of years of evolution to be more tolerant of wood smoke.


You would hope, but no. Wood smoke is still deadly.[0]

[0]https://www.stoveteam.org/why-stoves


“more tolerant” is what I said. Evolution is mostly a slow process and can never reach perfection.

An evolutionary force that is too strong just kills a species.


Close to a million years by the best guess.

Which is thousands of years... about a thousand such thousands.




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