Nothing harmful about wood smoke

While reading the Daily Herald in front of the hearth, listening to the crackling logs of my wood fire, I'm obligated to respond to your article "Where there's smoke," and Ken Dubinski's claims about what he calls, "the new secondhand smoke."

Is it self interest, selfishness, or ignorance that he's leading a ban on wood smoke emissions in Elk Grove? His claim that, "I don't smell diesel from Route 53 but I smell the smoke from wood burning," is admitting that because you can smell something that contains polluting agents it must then be harmful regardless.

What about jet fuel emissions from the tons and tons of pollutants spewed daily into the air over his Elk Grove Township by neighboring O'Hare. Can he smell them? If not, they (jet fuel pollutants) must not be harmful.

Dwight Bouck

Wheaton