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Thursday, March 03, 2005
Mrs Marlboro
If you think cities are a deathtrap and we need to revert to Gandhiji's rural economy, then here's a story you need to read. Amitabha Bhattasali reports for the BBC that indoor pollution of a particular kind is responsible for over 550,000 deaths in India every year, mostly of women. The reason: the chula, the primitive stove still used in villages across India for cooking. Bhattasali reports that the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan Cancer Research Institute has done a study on this subject, and concluded: "These women are actually inhaling pollutants equivalent to as many as 20 cigarettes everyday."
So now we've got a match for the Marlboro Man – the Chula Woman.
Link via Secular-Right India.
So now we've got a match for the Marlboro Man – the Chula Woman.
Link via Secular-Right India.
