PHA-Exchange> Take Action to stop the killer in the kitchen - indoor air pollution

[Adam Musgrave]

Dear People's Health Assembly,

 

Please TAKE ACTION today to help us Stop the Killer in the Kitchen
<http://practicalaction.org/?id=smoke_postcard> 

 

 Every day over 4000 men, women and children in the world's poorest
countries die as a result of lethal levels of smoke from indoor cooking
fires. Poverty condemns half of the world's population to use wood,
dung, charcoal and coal for cooking and heating their homes. The smoke
produced from cooking fires causes the deaths of 1.5 million people
every year; a life lost every 20 seconds, and a greater killer than
malaria.  Women and children are particularly vulnerable, as they spend
between 3 and 7 hours by the fire, inhaling smoke over 100 times above
the accepted safety levels. 

 

Illnesses caused by smoke include chronic bronchitis, acute lower
respiratory infections, and lung cancer. There is also increasing
evidence linking it to asthma, TB and low birth weight. The
international community has acted to combat other major threats to
health in poor countries such as unsafe water and unsafe sex. Yet smoke,
the killer in the kitchen, has been largely ignored. 

 

Practical Action is calling for the British Government to do more to
address this neglected killer by showing leadership in the international
community. Please support the campaign by sending an e-postcard to the
International Development Secretary, Hilary Benn, calling on him to
champion an UN-led Global Action Plan to tackle indoor air pollution.

 

To find out more about the campaign and to take action, visit 
http://practicalaction.org/?id=smoke_index. 

 

With thanks and best wishes,

 

Adam

Adam Musgrave 
Campaigner 
Practical Action 

Tel.: +44 (0) 1926 634498 (direct line) 
Fax: +44 (0) 1926 634401 
www.practicalaction.org 

Practical Action 
The Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development 
Bourton on Dunsmore 
Rugby 
Warwickshire 
CV23 9QZ 

 

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