ArticleNature human behaviour2022
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure.Annual review of medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Prenatal exposure to wildfire fine particulate matter and fetal growth outcomes in the United States: Findings from the ECHO Cohort.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Wildfire smoke PMCancer epidemiology · 2026Article
- Wildfire exposure and political participation in Africa.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Wildland fire smoke and birth defects in California.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Wildfire-Season Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Associations with Influenza and Influenza-like-Illness Risk in the Western USA.Environmental health perspectives · 2026Article
- Workplace Exposures May Mask Wildfire Smoke-Related Exposure Inequities and Mortality.Environmental science & technology letters · 2026Article
- Wildfire-Sourced PM2.5 and Emergency Department Visits for Migraine and Other Primary Headache.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Assessing the Evidence for Differential Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Across Fires and Populations: A Critical Review of Recent Studies.Current environmental health reports · 2026Review
- A Comparative Analysis of Wildland Fire Smoke PMGeoHealth · 2026Article
- Understanding COPD Patients' Perspectives on Utilizing Strategies to Limit Their Exposure to Wildfire Smoke.Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Behavioral responses to wildfire smoke: Insights from smartphone location data.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Valuing wildfire smoke-related mortality benefits from climate mitigation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Evaluation of Smoke Exposure Risk from January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Using Crowdsourced Data.ACS ES&T air · 2026Article
- Prenatal Exposure to Wildfire and Autism in Children.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Health Impact Analysis of Wildfire Smoke-PMGeoHealth · 2026Article
- Wildfire-Specific PMGeoHealth · 2026Article
- Prenatal exposure to wildfire-related PMEnvironment international · 2026Article
- The diverging role of increasing wildfire smoke to ambient PMPLOS climate · 2026Article
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the effectiveness of this strategy is hard to observe. Using data from private pollution sensors, cell phones, social media posts and internet search activity, we find that during large wildfire smoke events, individuals in wealthy locations increasingly search for information about air quality and health protection, stay at home more and are unhappier. Residents of lower-income neighbourhoods exhibit similar patterns in searches for air quality information but not for health protection, spend less time at home and have more muted sentiment responses. During smoke events, indoor particulate matter (PM
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