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I first learnt that smoke from chulhas was deadly when Kirk Smith, then a professor at the East-West Centre in Hawaii, visited our office in the early 1980s. He came with a handheld smoke monitor and told us how monitoring kitchen smoke in Gujarat villages had revealed that women were exposed to total suspended particulates of about 7000 microgrammes per cubic metre (

Sunita Narain [2]
Down to Earth [3]
20030715
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Air Pollution [4], LPG [5], Chulhas (Cookstoves) [6], Research [7], WHO [8], India [9], Gujarat [10]

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