Hello, dear readers, and welcome to a bonus letters column. Your questions and comments are keeping our inboxes busy (and as always, thank you!), so we’ll dive right in.
– We recently discussed the health dangers of wildfire smoke. Now a reader in Detroit wonders about the safety of his living room fireplace. “I was recently diagnosed with a mildly dilated thoracic aorta,” he wrote.
“This has made m…