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Scottish "blackhouses" had no chimneys but burned peat inside, the smoke apparently escaped through cracks in the thatching. This seems...unhealthy. Did the crofters who lived in these houses have extremely high rates of lung disease?

by /u/kahntemptuous in /r/AskHistorians

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