What do you know about smoke?

What do you know about smoke? If you’ve lived in the West for at least one summer, you probably know wildfires produce a lot of it! But did you know smoke can travel for hundreds of miles and affect people nowhere near a wildfire? Did you know that smoke is full of teeny tiny particles? We’re talking many, many times smaller than a single grain of sand, smaller even than dust or red blood cells. 

Wildfires aren’t the only source of smoke. All fires – campfires, fireplaces, woodstoves, industrial fires, BBQs, even candles – produce smoke which contains these tiny pollution particles.