Fireplaces: Ethics is the
esthetics of the future

Dear Editor:

Wood-bumers may have more in common with cigarette
smokers than they realize. Recent research from Norway sug-
gests that wood-burners may become addicted to the smoke
from their fireplace and stoves.

The study, which spans a three-year period, found that
wood-burners display all the classic withdrawal symptoms of
Cigarette smokers when deprived of their fires (wood smoke
contains many of the chemicals found in cigarette smoke).

Although the wood-burners believed that it was the “cozi-
ness” of a fire and the crackling sounds it makes which they
missed, when they were provided with a hermetically sealed
fire it failed to satisfy over 90% of the test subjects.

This led researchers to conclude that it was the actual
smoke which the wood-burners missed and not the esthetics of
a fire. So, if you have an overwhelming urge to switch off the
central heating and light a fire, it may not be as innocent as a
harmless game of “let's pretend it’s yesteryear.”

Lee

North Vancouver

Dear Editor:

TE would like to commend
the North Shore News for
having the foresight and
integrity to publish Hilary
Stirlirig’s intelligent article “In
the name of science” (Friday,
Feb. 21).

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science under the microscope

Seldom does the media risk
putting the powerful scientific
community under the micro-
scope to identify what precise-
ly is the matter with it. Young
people such as Hilary Scrling
do not accept the convention
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sacrificed for the health (and
entertainment) of we humans.

The increasing cancer,
arthritis and heart disease rates

show that established research
has failed us bitterly to date.
Anne Birthistle

Vancouver

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