[xzins]

In my own case, my closest neighbor is about 200 yards away, and there is no neighbor where any smoke drifting their direction doesn’t first have to go through a line of trees. While they might smell the smell at times, they never get smoked.

[Smokin' Joe]

With some exceptions, the majority of people I know who primarily heat with wood live in rural areas. Wood is more readily available there for the harvesting, and provides a close and cheap fuel source (albeit one which demands labor). More centralized services and the lack of readily available affordable firewood in urban environments tend to sway the use of fuel to Gas, electric, or even fuel oil and away form wood.

The onus of the regulation will be felt by the people who tend to be most widely spread from their neighbors, where the natural dilution of any pollutants will take care of the problem before others are affected.

It is generally a non-problem, with the exception of some valleys where local ordinances can take care of the problem.

The EPA, typically, is heavy handed in wielding a solution fro a (non)problem that did not need it.