We used kerosene wick stoves one winter, long long ago, before our
solar heated houses were fully in order. Gack, what horrible fumes! That's the worst! Yes, I guess if they are vented properly, yeah, but ... not for me.
The popular kerosene
heaters, called kerosene bukharis, that heat the liquid kerosene before it comes out and ignites, don't give off nearly such bad fumes. And they always have a chimney to outside.
I haven't been in a room with one for several years, and I never used one regularly, but I think you didn't have to pressurize the tank as you do in a portable little kerosene cookstove. Instead, I sometimes saw the fuel tank hung up higher than the body of the stove. That was for low-tech homemade ones. Fancier commercial models had the fuel tank and the burner together in one appliance
like this but I don't know how it works inside.
I just googled "kerosene bokhari" and came up with some nasty news articles about kerosene attacks and stuff, so I'm sorry, I gave up on trying to find you a good diagram of the inner workings.