Abstract :
During the last few years, anthracosis and anthraco-tuberculosis have found great interest between pulmonologists of Iran and some other parts of the world as a newly emerging medical condition associated with high tuberculous burden. A recent report from World Health Organization (WHO) consider indoor air pollution from old fashion household cooking res as the most important environmental cause of mortality and morbidity which is the etiology of at least 2 million deaths across the world each year.1 This primitive household cooking which uses biomass (dung, wood, charcoal and crop residues) results in old fashion homes filled with dense smoke, blacking walls and ceilings and sickening women and children in low income countries. The risk of these types of exposures is equal to lifelong smokersof tobacco and result in annual deaths of 872,000 children under age 5 from acute lower respiratory infections , 1,057,000 adults from COPD, 36,000 adults from lung and upper respiratory cancers.2,3
