Ask your father (or, for that matter, our news director Keith Buglewicz) about what it was like growing up in Los Angeles back in the day, and he’ll tell you of days of smog alerts and brown skies, and of skipping school because it was painful to breathe outside. The health risks were less known then, but like today’s skies, they’re much clearer: around the world air pollution kills, and nowhere is that more startling than in Los Angeles.
Scientists found that across five continents, breathing heavily polluted air for less than a week increased the risk of a heart attack. The published study revealed that the heart is most vulnerable to airborne pollutants, and unlike in past studies, this one showed that it doesn’t take months or years for smog to detract from human health
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