Regarding the Fairbanks part of the story...since when do Fairbanks residents give a rat's patoody about the quality of their air? Geez, they've been dealing with the same crappy air situation for 35-plus years without once coming close to getting the population to agree to even a partial solution...so I don't think a little plant "smell" should be a much of a problem. 

And the woman who says the smell of a plant gave her family "sore throats and painful headaches"...I gotta call bull-bleep on that one.