If you don't smoke around your child then dont allow wood smoke around them either

[Trisha-Faye]

Burning wood creates significant amounts of fine particle pollution. And the more scientists have learned about particle pollution, the more alarmed they have become.

Studies have now linked particle pollution with a host of health problems that include asthma attacks, diminished lung function, respiratory ailments, heart attacks and stroke. While particle pollution affects everyone, it is particularly dangerous for children - whose lungs are still developing - and can cause bronchitis, increases in respiratory infections and impaired lung development.

These are just a few of the reasons the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now considers fine particle pollution its "most pressing air quality problem." 

It may seem hard to believe that something so familiar could actually be harmful to our health. But just watch a movie from the 1940s, and you\'ll realize that cigarette smoking was also once considered harmless, and just as ubiquitous as wood burning is today. The EPA estimates that the cancer risk from wood smoke may be 12 times greater than from an equal amount of tobacco smoke.
http://www.dld123.com/q&a/index.php?cid=2747

you can read more effects of wood smoke at http://burningissues.org/car-www/medical_effects/index.html

[cutebaby06]

Flippin pancakes & waffels,I'm getting so sick of hearing & reading that everything is harmful to us,why don't we all just live in a flippin bubble,that way we won't have to worry about harmful stuff.

 

[frndlyfn]

We used to have a wood fireplace back when i moved out here , then we moved and now have a gas fireplace that we rarely use. It hardly puts out heat so a better alternative is the space heater.

[kate_m.]

Quoting cutebaby06:

Flippin pancakes & waffels,I'm getting so sick of hearing & reading that everything is harmful to us,why don't we all just live in a flippin bubble,that way we won't have to worry about harmful stuff.

 

I agree!!!! Everything we do now is harmful to us!! What a crock!!!

[gardenchic]

hmm, this is a touchy one.....we are non smokers but LOVE WOOD FIREPLACES,, no we do not own one...

[momto3infl]

We dont in FL-but our family in IN does and love it and love the smell of it.   We are non smokers.

[wells75904]

I dont have a fireplace but I smoke around my kids, you cant shelter them from everything

[Mommyto2kids09]

We have a wood burning insert and we don't smoke at all. We love our fireplace and its our only source of heat so yeah we use it

[Willowjade]

We have 2 wood burning pellet stoves in our home.  And honestly I don't see how this has anything to do with apples and oranges. 

Smoking provides THOUSANDS of harmful pollutants that you breath in, proven cancer causing.

And most wood burning fireplaces, stoves, pellet stoves, do not smoke in your house.  They are vented out.  Yes you smell them but the smoke is vented outside.  The super small amout of particles that may make it in the house are in no where near the amounts needed to cause the issues in the article. 

It might if you repeatedly stick your head in the fireplace I guess!

[akataml]

Mmm your siggy makes me oddly happy lol

Op yes i smoke, no never any where near my kids, and no wood stove.Not for the smoke production but for the sheer fact that im petrified of fire

Quoting momto3infl:

We dont in FL-but our family in IN does and love it and love the smell of it.   We are non smokers.

[nikkikry]

We don't smoke. We have a wood burning fireplace that we don't use. It also has a conversion to make it into a gas fireplace which we have also never used because we have small child(ren). But once they're older we're planning on using it. The only time we and our children are exposed to wood smoke is the occassional bon fire or when we got camping once a year. And I LOOOOVVVVEEE the smell of a nice campfire.