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People exposed for years to higher-than-average concentrations of air pollution developed changes to their lungs similar to those seen in cigarette smokers, a new study finds.

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EnvDefenseFund This is why almost everyone in countries like India or China have air filters installed inside their homes and people barley go outside. And when they do they always wear filtration masks which don’t really help if the API is 200+.

EnvDefenseFund they start thinking the new york times is news

Regulate and clean up diesel trucks. Worst offenders by far. First world countries have already shown its possible.

Duh

A firm grasp of the obvious. Heard this decades ago. New study performed in China?

Ahh, duh, why do they think kids have high asthma rates in urban areas , those who stay and grow old in those same areas develop chronic lung disease , with lung remodeling & scarring

No shit. You don't say?

So if you can't move away then 'smoke 'em if you got 'em'?

Thanks fossil fuels.

As bad as cigarettes are there is a lot of people dying from breathing the local atmosphere. You can sue tobacco companies but the brown smog of LA was created by burning Hydrocarbons and not Marlboros.

BreatheProject

But no one measures this data because then the people and corporations responsible would be in trouble. Another slap on the wrist...

Great! Just great! Again, PROOF our species branch on the tree was a FLUKE! We’re self-destructive.

Air pollution is one of many reasons not to live in helLA. 🖤SAN ANDREAS

so wear a mask in china for sure. we hardly have enough production in the u.s. to be an issue anymore.

people are no more likely to cause air pollution than climate change. Its just air, like it's just climate

Her emails...

glad i live in nyc

Shocked I tell you. Shocked.

This is on the failed Obama admin and their total neglect of the subject matter .

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