The Deadliest Room in the House: Indoor Air Pollution and South Asia's Most Overlooked Public Health Emergency
South Asia accounts for 36 percent of the world's household air pollution deaths, yet every policy conversation about "air quality" focuses on the outdoors. This investigation traces what's actually inside the smoke, from carcinogenic particulates to an overlooked contributor, incense, and asks why a woman's kitchen has never been classified as the hazardous workplace the evidence says it is.
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