As of Monday morning, nearly five thousand wildfires have burned 30.4 million acres in Canada since the beginning of 2023.

Smoke from those wildfires has drifted to the eastern United States, including here in Central Pennsylvania and resulted in poor and unhealthy air quality days in June and July.

In fact, researchers at Rutgers University found the smoke was at levels not seen since smoking was banned indoors 15 years ago.

José Guillermo (Memo) Cedeño Laurent, Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Public Health, Director| Rutgers CARE Lab, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. Memo Cedeño Laurent, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health who is working on the study, is with us on The Spark today.

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