Just found out coal fires (or any open fireplaces, wood burners etc) are much worse than traffic pollution, increase heart problems - especially in kids and the elderly - and lung problems. Have also been linked to dementia www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8937261/Open-fires-home-pose-hazard-brain-health.html
This is really worrying as particle pollution on average shortens everyone's lives, and according to scientists most pollution is not coming from roads but from inside our homes.
What does everyone think? I won't be putting my fire on this winter...