Survive Breathing: Reduce Household Air Pollution to Save Lives and Help the Climate

Household air pollution

Health impacts

Smoke released contibutes to outdoor air pollution

Respiratory diseases

CO

Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in young children (pneumonia) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, breathing problems) Lung cancer Asthma

CO 2

Soot particles PM 2.5 PM 10

And others...

Benzene

Other health effects Heart

diseases/problems Cataract (blindness) Burns from fire/flame

Kerosene Lamp

Poisoning from ingesting fuels

Open fire for cooking and heating

Figure 2: Nearly 3 billion people continue to rely on biomass for cooking. This exposes them to a number of dangerous pollutants that have been linked to lower respiratory infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer and a host of other child and adult health problems. These include low birth weight, perinatal mortality, asthma, middle ear infection, tuberculosis, nasopharyngeal cancer, cataracts, blindness, and cardiovascular disease.

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SURVIVE BREATHING