The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/frandsen36.html
By D.B. Frandsen
The season is arriving. The garden is ready for its final turning, the apples are picked, and it’s supposed to freeze by the end of the week. So, how is your creosote level? Not your cholesterol, your creosote. It builds up on the inside of your chimney and stove pipe, not your veins, but it could cause similar problems.Tap your stove pipe. Are you answered with a sharp ping or a thud? If it is the latter, you have a creosote problem. --- continued at link, above ---