why is wildfire smoke more dangerous than campfire smoke?

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I know that no smoke is good for you to breathe in, but I’ve seen some posts about how if you breathe in the same amount of both campfire and wildfire smoke, the wildfire smoke would be worse for you. Why is that?

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It’s mostly just a matter of scale. A wildfire is thousands or millions of times bigger than a camp fire and may be burning anything. Plastic is very flammable and releases toxic compounds when it burns

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