{"id":122124,"date":"2024-01-16T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/wood-heater-smoke-estimated-to-kill-up-to-63-in-act-each-year-prompting-calls-for-national-ban\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:57:30","slug":"wood-heater-smoke-estimated-to-kill-up-to-63-in-act-each-year-prompting-calls-for-national-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/wood-heater-smoke-estimated-to-kill-up-to-63-in-act-each-year-prompting-calls-for-national-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood heater smoke estimated to kill up to 63 in ACT each year, prompting calls for national ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122124\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Researchers are calling for new wood heaters to be banned from urban areas and existing ones to be phased out after their study showed wood heaters could be killing up to 63 people a year in the ACT alone. The study published on Monday in the Medical Journal of Australia found there were a similar number of deaths attributed to domestic wood heaters in the ACT each year as they estimated died prematurely in the territory due to the extreme smoke from the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires.<\/p>\n<p>Wood smoke has previously been estimated to cause 269 premature deaths a year in the Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area and 65 deaths annually in Tasmania. While the ACT has already moved to ban the heaters, the study&#8217;s findings have prompted its authors to call on environmental regulators and public health authorities in other states to urgently ban the heaters as well. In the study, the researchers measured the amount of microscopic particulates, known as PM 2.5, at three research stations in the capital including Tuggeranong Valley, Belconnen and central Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>These tiny particles are small enough to enter the bloodstream through the lungs, and long-term exposure can exacerbate respiratory conditions such as asthma and it also leads to a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and some types of cancer. Their modelling found the higher number of these particulates in the air during cold years \u2013 2017, 2018 and 2021 \u2013 would conservatively likely be responsible for 17 to 26 premature deaths in the ACT. Across the country, the distribution and impact of wood heaters is varied. An estimated 2.7 million Australians have asthma, and for one in four of them smoke is a trigger for asthma attacks, with 455 dying nationally in 2022 from their asthma.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-01-15\/wood-heater-smoke-death-study-prompts-call-for-ban\/103321954\">ABC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/4-459\/\">Wood heater smoke estimated to kill up to 63 in ACT each year, prompting calls for national ban<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[616,677,575,9034,12945],"class_list":["post-122124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-ban","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-smoke","tag-wood-heating"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}