To the Editor:

I am surprised that health-conscious, educated Princetonians breathe without protest the woodsmoke belching from their neighbors’ chimneys. Even a cursory search under “woodsmoke and health” will show them the following: 70 percent of the woodsmoke outside of their homes will enter and pollute the air inside; and it will have the following effects on the health of people breathing it:

aggravating lung disease symptoms — asthma, emphysema; heart disease: irregular heartbeat, heart attacks, premature death in people with heart or lung disease. Not to mention that it contains carcinogens, and contributes to global warming!

Ludmilla Wightman

Balsam Lane