THE sweet smell of incense could be bad for your health. Burning incense, a
popular meditative and medicinal aid often used by Buddhists, Hindus and
Christians in their homes and places of worship, exposes people to dangerous
levels of smoke laden with cancer-causing chemicals.
Levels of one chemical believed to cause lung cancer were 40 times higher in
a badly ventilated temple in Taiwan than in houses where people smoke tobacco.
Incense burning also creates more pollution than road traffic at a local
intersection.
“We truly hope that incense burning brings only spiritual comfort, without
any physical discomfort,” says Ta…
