To protect your lungs from wildfire smoke, the mask you wear matters

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 16:40 in Health & Medicine

Toby Lewsadder stepped outside an Ace Hardware store in Sacramento wearing a simple one-strap dust mask. He knew it wasn’t the right defense against the wildfire smoke lingering in the air, but it was all he could find. The stores he checked didn’t have the more substantial respirator mask that...

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