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    TWO more separate messages from Kirk Smith.<br>
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    First one:
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject:
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            <td>[stove] Moving toward social investment</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th>
            <td>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:36:32 -0800</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th>
            <td>Kirk Smith <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                href="mailto:krksmith@berkeley.edu"><krksmith@berkeley.edu></a></td>
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            <td><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                href="mailto:krksmith@berkeley.edu">krksmith@berkeley.edu</a></td>
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            <td>'Kirk Smith' <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                href="mailto:krksmith@berkeley.edu"><krksmith@berkeley.edu></a></td>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">Our


            article is now published in EPW, the most influential weekly
            political commentary in India – download the full version
            from my website  below.  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">At


            the bottom here is the editor’s abstract, which does not
            convey the full extent of our analysis.  In particular, in
            addition to discussing the merits of an opt-in scheme, we
            also recommend a shift to a sliding income-based subsidy and
            show how much greater penetration of LPG could be achieved
            in the next decade by doing so.  Finally, we make this
            important point in the last para:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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          style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">“Indeed,


              if the </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharterScap","serif"">LPG


            </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">expenditure


              of the government can be targeted to poor people more
              smartly, it should be termed social investment rather than
              subsidy, in keeping with other public investments in
              health and welfare, such as primary healthcare and
              schools. The national health and social benefits could
              also be immense.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">Best/k</span><span
style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"EPW2Charter-Black","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"EPW2Charter-Black","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"EPW2Charter-Black","serif"">Promoting


            Clean and Affordable Cooking: </span><b><span
style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Bold","serif"">Smarter


              Subsidies for LPG<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif"">Alok Tripathi, Ambuj D Sagar,
            Kirk R Smith, <i>Economic and Political Weekly</i>, 50(48):
            81-84<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">Abstract 


            “The health effects of cooking with biomass and coal are now
            well-recognised. Although more people use </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharterScap","serif"">LPG</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">,
            the number of those using biomass and coal has remained
            static for nearly 30 years. While </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharterScap","serif"">LPG


          </span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"EPWCharter-Roman","serif"">subsidies 


            have played an important role in expanding access to this
            cooking fuel, directing the subsidies to the  poorest and
            the most vulnerable  remains a fraught matter. This article
            proposes that consumers opt in for the subsidy by
            self-certifying that their household income is less than an
            amount set by the government, instead of the opt-out
            approach followed today.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">---------------------------<br>
          Kirk R. Smith, MPH, PhD<br>
          Professor of Global Environmental Health<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Chair, Graduate Group in Environmental
          Health Sciences<br>
          Director of the Global Health and Environment Program<br>
          School of Public Health<br>
          747 University Hall<br>
          University of California<br>
          Berkeley, California, 94720-7360<br>
          phone 1-510-643-0793; fax 642-5815<br>
          <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:krksmith@berkeley.edu">krksmith@berkeley.edu</a><br>
          <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.kirkrsmith.org/">http://www.kirkrsmith.org/</a><br>
          <br>
          <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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    Message Number two:<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/7/2015 2:40 PM, Kirk Smith wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">More evidence of the large-scale shift in
          awareness and associated actions taken by the Indian Ministry
          of Petroleum and Natural Gas in conjunction with the national
          oil companies to promote LPG more vigorously.  Indian Oil,
          which sells 50% of the LPG nationally, is leading the way by
          challenging its local officers nationally to find new
          distribution modes like this one.  And the media is starting
          to notice -  excellent!/k<o:p></o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          style="mso-line-height-alt:18.75pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#393939">Karnataka
            hamlet is India’s 1st smokeless village<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#999999;background:white"><a
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href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Seetha-Lakshmi-479238889.cms"><span
                style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#336797">Seetha Lakshmi</span></a>,
            TNN </span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#999999;background:white">|</span><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#999999;background:white"> Dec
            4, 2015, 02.09AM IST</span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  style="color:#336797">inShare</span></a></span></b><span
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            Roman","serif";color:#3CA3FF"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              src="cid:part9.06070008.05070106@ilstu.edu" alt="gas"
              border="0" height="178" width="217"></span><span
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          style="line-height:11.25pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">Lakshmidevamma
            in her clean kitchen in Vyachakurahalli village,
            Chikkaballapur district, Karnataka, on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3F3F3F">GAURIBIDANUR
            (CHIKKABALLAPUR DISTRICT):<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Karnataka-hamlet-is-Indias-1st-smokeless-village/articleshow/50035075.cms"><span
                style="color:#3F3F3F;text-decoration:none"> Until last
                month, Thimmakka had to blow her lungs out even to make
                a cup of coffee. And this had been her ritual for 40
                years now. </span></a>Not any more. Her kitchen is now
            fitted with an LPG stove. Like 274 other households in
            Vyachakurahalli of Gauribidanur taluk in Chikkaballapur
            district.<br>
            <br>
            Cooking with firewood is passe in Vyachakurahalli since all
            households here have LPG. The Union petroleum ministry has
            officially declared it as India's first smokeless village,
            owing to its conversion from conventional fuel to LPG. "My
            compliments to the residents of Vyachakurahalli which has
            been declared as the first smokeless village in India,"
            tweeted petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan.<br>
            <br>
            Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) piloted the 'Mission Smokeless
            village' project here, about 77km from Bengaluru. "The idea
            was to redeem women's health," said Moti Sayi Vasudevan,
            general manager (smokeless villages) at IOC. "Due to the
            continuous inhalation of particles, women are more prone to
            pneumonia due to usage of firewood as a fuel."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3F3F3F;background:white">But
            that was until last week. Now, the kitchens have got swanky
            steel gas stoves and red cylinders. While a separate plank
            has been built to accommodate the new gas stove in
            Lakshmidevamma's kitchen, Saraswathamma is looking forward
            to cooking these days. "I would frequently have bouts of
            cough due to the continuous use of firewood," she said.
            "This is the best thing that has happened to women in the
            village."</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#3F3F3F"><br>
            <br>
            <span style="background:white">In drought-hit Gauribidanur,
              this recognition for clean fuel comes as a huge relief. As
              Ratnamma put it: "No more black roofs and black lungs."</span><br>
            <br>
            <strong><span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";background:white">Learning
                safe handling of LPG</span></strong><br>
            <br>
            <span style="background:white">Gita Jayender sits with a
              group of women in a small thatched roof kitchen, telling
              them how to operate an LPG stove, how it is important to
              switch off the regulator at the end of the day, how not to
              leave utensils on the stove and go away, among other
              things. Shrenik Enterprises on Railway Station Road is
              buzzing with activity as entire families walk in to
              purchase new LPG stoves. "We had to first conduct an
              awareness campaign for villagers to tell them why it is
              important to go smokeless. Drought is staring at them. Why
              LPG, they asked," said Shrenik R J, who is spearheading
              the smokeless movement in the village. The next project
              will be taken up at Gandhian Dr H Narasimhaiah's
              birthplace, Hosur, in Chikkaballapur district, he said.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          Kirk R. Smith, MPH, PhD<br>
          Professor of Global Environmental Health<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Chair, Graduate Group in Environmental
          Health Sciences<br>
          Director of the Global Health and Environment Program<br>
          School of Public Health<br>
          747 University Hall<br>
          University of California<br>
          Berkeley, California, 94720-7360<br>
          phone 1-510-643-0793; fax 642-5815<br>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:krksmith@berkeley.edu">krksmith@berkeley.edu</a><br>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.kirkrsmith.org/">http://www.kirkrsmith.org/</a><br>
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