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Air Pollution Health Effects<br />

• London Smog 1952: 12,000 dead<br />

• Donora Pennsylvania 1948: 20 killed, 6000<br />

sickened (industrial pollution)<br />

• Modern studies: Harvard Six Cities;<br />

American Cancer Society: prospective<br />

studies of exposure to air pollutants; risk<br />

(particulate matter as surrogate); more<br />

than 100 epidemiological studies, various<br />

designs

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