[PowderMonkey]

"Those numbers are tilted steeply toward women and children in developing nations, who inhale the dangerously high concentration of chemicals and can develop diseases including lung cancer and cataracts."

LOL! My experience in Third World countries tells me they should be so lucky. Endemic diseases, internecine warfare, snake bite, and murderously abusive spouses take them long before a "dirty" stove ever will.

[Memoria]

Give us a break. Like Libloather said, people in 3rd world have a lot more serious problems than the cook-stoves they’re using.

By the way, a lot of those “3rd-worlders” end up in good ol’ USA and (especially lately with housing market collapse) seem to find their way to OUR neighborhood, where they invariably end up BURNING THEIR STINKING TRASH IN THEIR BACK YARDS, and it all seems to waft over to our garden, making it impossible to breathe or enjoy a few moments outside among the roses.

Dunces are everywhere; and as my daddy used to say: “Poor people have poor ways.”