A federal study finds that cooking without a working exhaust fan can flood the air of a typical house with ultrafine pollution—particles less than 0.1 micrometer in diameter. Recent investigations by other scientists have linked such ultrafine particles, which can be inhaled deeply into the lungs, to serious breathing and heart problems (SN: 8/2/03, p. 72: Air Sickness).
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