A 2023 study of smoke from fires in the wildland-urban interface found it contained a vast array of chemicals harmful to humans such as hydrogen chloride, dioxins, and known carcinogens.
The short-term effects of exposure to wildfire smoke can trigger asthma attacks and cause lung and cardiac problems, but long-term effects are less understood.
Long-term smoke exposure is increasing, as the acreage burned in wildfires in the U.S. has nearly doubled each decade since 1990, leading to more communities being blanketed in smoke.
As an environmental toxicologist, I, along with many of my colleagues, am increasingly concerned about the impact of long-term and repeated exposures to wildfire smoke.
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