Wood-Burning Stoves to Come With Cigarette-Style Health Warnings in Britain

The UK government already mandates plain packaging and grizzly health warnings on cigarettes, and now the same is coming to home stoves and even sacks of ‘coal’ and firewood.

New wood-burning stoves, bags of firewood, and even sacks of ‘smokeless fuel’ — a coal replacement now sold as the government has already totally outlawed the sale of real coal — will have to be sold with cigarette-style health warnings, the government has said. Appliances will be rated from A to C depending on their efficiency, with many presently available burners and furnaces becoming illegal to buy as the maximum smoke output is to be slashed by 80 per cent.

The Times reports that messages printed on the packaging of burners and fuel will include the warning