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Indoor air pollution from inefficient cooking methods using firewood/charcoal cook stoves and traditional cooking methods causes cancer, pneumonia and other diseases that can effect the lungs of mostly women and children. Traditional cooking methods can also cause skin burns and other injuries to women and children. But what about malaria🤔 Mosquitoes causing malaria  can be increased in the home environment as a result of extreme heat from cooking ... yeah you heard me. From the extreme heat when wood and charcoal are used for cooking, many pollutants are introduced into the air we breathe. But why is wood for cooking dangerous? This is it ... trees are "the lungs of the earth" and meant to keep us healthy. They purify the air by storing airborne pollutants, odors and pollutant gases such as nitrogen oxide, ammonia and sulfur dioxide in their barks. Toxins are absorbed through the tree's stomata ("skin pores). When trees are cut a lot of of these pollutant...

Mrs olatayo cooking at her house captured by our amateur photographer. W omen in  Mrs Olatayo category are among  the 85% of the Nigeria population without access to clean energy for cooking,for such  women  it is either they use traditional firewood cook stoves or buy expensive charcoal paired with kerosene for daily cooking,while this type of cooking is going on you can always see them with wet eyes as a result of the smoke,you would also always see them with burn skin,majority actually do not know that this type of cooking endangers their health beyond wet and burn skin,until they started having respiratory problems and some eventually die as a result of the overexposure to smokes from  polluting cooking methods Inhaling smokes from cooking for 4.5 hours of exposure has been linked as equivalent to smoking 20 packs of cigarettes per day. Even me as a writer of this blog never knew that  the open fire cooking methods practiced by our mother...