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Wood smoke stories from the United Kingdom

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Driven from a Hampshire market town
…It cost me tens of thousands to move…
Smoked out in a smokeless zone
…The first winter they burnt kitchen cabinets, old furniture, chipboard, plywood, painted wood, fence panels etc…
Breathless in Belfast
…More than a dozen smoking chimneys are in the area, from none ~3 yrs ago.…
A Defra-approved stove worsening asthma
His comment when we told him a family member had asthma and the smoke was making it worse, was “that's not my problem.”…
COPD and a wood-burning neighbor
I can’t have my windows open and my whole area smells of burning wood…
Smoke in a Welsh village
…When we came here, the air was fresh. Now, more and more of our neighbours have taken to wood burning…
It was a nightmare
We had to move from our house that we loved…
We feel desperate
Although our nearest neighbour is a field away we still can smell wood smoke…
Wood burners in Oxfordshire
Since I moved here, several wood-burners have been installed in neighbouring houses…
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