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please do not subsidize wood burning stoves. Wood burning stoves
and outdoor wood boilers should be banned and made illegal. They
are the most polluting of all heat sources and they are the most
hazardous to everyones health of all the heat sources. Wood smoke
is way more toxic than cigarette smoke. Wood smoke increases the
risk of heart attack, stroke, and death. It also makes COPD,
asthma, and other health issues worse. This antiquated method of
heat(wood burning) should not be used anymore when we have
electric, gas, oil, geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear to
provide heat for homes and businesses. All of these other methods
are less polluting and less harmful to health. The UN recommends
that wood burning be phased out in all developed countries. I can
cite many articles and papers on how bad wood burning is for the
environment and health. Wood burning needs to be ended not only in
this state by nation wide. We are not forced to breathe in
cigarette smoke, so why are we being forced to breath in wood smoke
when we do not want to be breathing that health hazard in. Please
do not subsidize wood stoves. Please think of the health of the
people and environment and ban the use of them instead.