Is tobacco smoke as harmful as wood smoke?

Cigarette Smoke. People who would never dream of smoking a cigarette choose to burn wood. Yet wood smoke contains many of the same toxic and carcinogenic substances as cigarette smoke, including benzene, benzo(a)pyrene, and dibenz(a,h)anthracene. read more

Wood smoke is just as harmful as tobacco smoke. All of us who have been by a campfire were greatly annoyed when the wind shifted and blew the smoke in our direction. We moved to avoid it. read more

The smoke from wood burning is made up of a complex mixture of gases and fine particles (also called particle pollution, particulate matter, or PM). In addition to particle pollution, wood smoke contains several toxic harmful air pollutants including: benzene, formaldehyde, acrolein and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). read more

Yet wood smoke contains many of the same toxic and carcinogenic substances as cigarette smoke, including benzene, benzo(a)pyrene, and dibenz(a,h)anthracene. And wood smoke produces far more particulate pollution than cigarette smoke does. read more