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Washington Post, Sept. 18, 2025, by By Shannon Osaka, 

John Muyskens and 

Daniel Wolfe

Every year, millions of Americans’ lungs are filled with wildfire smoke — smoke that stretches from the northwest tip of Washington state to the East Coast’s most populated cities. It’s blown in from thousand-acre Canadian wildfires and from blazes in the American West. That smoke penetrates into the bloodstream and deep into organs, triggering lung and heart disease. And, according to a new study, it’s already killing 41,000 people per year — or more than all the fatalities from traffic crashes in 2024. Read more . . .