Inhaling Wildfire Smoke Can Cause Long-Term Health Risks: How To Limit Your Exposure
While wildfires can cause immediate destruction to homes and towns, a few weeks of smoke exposure should not have long-term effects for most healthy people, according to Reza Ronaghi, MD, a pulmonologist in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.