[RightWhale]

Sometimes when the woodstove is going there is an atmospheric inversion of some kind that causes the stove to emit a large quantity of woodsmoke into the room, then the stove continues to draw as if nothing had happened. Is that woodsmoke safer to breathe than second-hand tobacco smoke? It must be safer or the Gov't would tax it. It is amusing to note while shopping at the mall whose clothing smells like woodsmoke because those are the real Alaskans.

[Gabz]

We rely on our woodstove for a major part of our heat, but we've never exprienced anything like you describe. I wonder if it has to do with continual use.

To me smoke is smoke, regardless of the source.............apparently there are MANY who disagree with me.

[ichabod1]

You remind me of an intersting rhetorical somebody on here asked one time. Which would you rather be locked in a garage with for an hour: 100 smokers or 1 running automobile?

[Ditter]

Occasionally our fireplace here on the Gulf Coast will belch some smoke into the room, if we have a fire burning, or just a smoke smell if we don't. I have been told that low atmospheric pressure will cause it or maybe its a sudden change in atmospheric pressure.