Deadly Smog

[judicatr]

I had no idea that this had even happened...

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/t ... great-smog

I wonder how folks in China are getting on with all of their pollution problems...

Your American Friend

[nickdutch]

A fascinating read and a reminder to be grateful for progress.

[Arzosah]

The health of Chinese city-dwellers will undoubtedly be worsened ... this killer smog was just before I was born, and anyway I lived in Liverpool, but it was common in the late 1950s to put the washing out to dry and for it to be brought in with soot on it and as a child, I remember the fog being dirty yellow, and making me cough - more of the same. I was in Turkey during winter time one year, and they still heat their homes with coal delivered to the door (its **cold** in Turkey during the winter, ten feet of snow inland!) and the smog there was bad too, you could taste it.

[redskies]

And yet people have hysterics about 'second hand smoke'

[lonewolf]

guy across the road burns coal(he burns anything including pallets) in his log burner, we get coal dust all over the windows on that side.

[Arzosah]

And yet people have hysterics about 'second hand smoke'

Ooh, just because its bad in other places, and it *was* that bad here not so long ago - that doesn't mean I don't want my air as clean as it can be, and nor do I want to die from second hand smoke. Together with faulty genes, and all that childhood damage to my lungs from those smogs, I'm vulnerable, there's no doubt about it.

[redskies]

And yet people have hysterics about 'second hand smoke'

Ooh, just because its bad in other places, and it *was* that bad here not so long ago - that doesn't mean I don't want my air as clean as it can be, and nor do I want to die from second hand smoke. Together with faulty genes, and all that childhood damage to my lungs from those smogs, I'm vulnerable, there's no doubt about it.

The crap pumped into the air from cars and industry will do you far more harm than second hand smoke ever could - when the smoking ban first came in down south, I got a shufti at the HSE handbook which said ''it's going to be hard to enforce because there is no concrete scientific evidence that second hand smoke causes disease.''

That's not to say, if you have respiratory issues, that it won't cause problems. More that it's been hyped from a half size mole hill into something resembling K2!

[Plymtom]

I hated the smoking ban we were close to a pub and passive smoked more in summer than we would have done pre ban in the pub