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Air pollution and health.
Air pollution and health. Edited by: STEPHEN T HOLGATE, JONATHAN M SAMET, HILLEL S KOREN, ROBERT L MAYNARD. (Pp 1065; £79.95) 1999. San Diego and London: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-353225-4.Among the most serious dangers to public health is air
pollution. It is at least as important as cancer and vascular disease as a cause of death, illness, and lost human potential, it is a major
source of environmental damage, and it seems to be an inescapable
accompaniment of industrial progress. In the 19th century we measured a
country's power by its production of sulphuric acid, perhaps we should
now do so by the acid particles breathed by its citizens? After the
very obvious air borne disasters of the 1950s due to fogs in Britain,
Mexico, and the USA, there was a rapid legislative and technical
response to reduce obvious sources of pollution,
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