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up your pencils and match the fuel with its correct fuel efficiency % and its CO2 How many cigarettes does Rani‘s kitchen smoke
in a day?
 Rani has six people in her family. Cooking for everyone requires
1kg of fuel wood per head. Now every kg emits as much as 129 mg of Carbon Monoxide (CO). A
cigarette, on the other hand, emits 58.8 mg of CO. So now all you have to calculate is, in
terms of CO emissions, how many cigarettes would have to be smoked in the kitchen to match
the wood smoke emissions?
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 America’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that wood
smoke is 12 times more carcinogenic than tobacco smoke and it attacks the body cells 40
times longer than tobacco smoke. A fireplace operating for an
hour, burning 4 kg of wood during that time, generates 4,300 times more carcinogenic
particles than 30 cigarettes.
A wood stove (chulha) is 500 times more polluting than
an oil burner and 1000 times dirtier than heating with gas! |
Biogas
LPG Gas
Kerosene
Wood
Crop Residues
Dung
