Air Pollution and Health: Summary and Report on Air Pollution and Its Effect on Health |
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air pollution amount assess atmosphere benzo(a)pyrene Britain British towns bronchitis and pneumonia burning carbon monoxide carcinogenic cause changes chimney chronic bronchitis cigarette smoking cities Clean Air Act cold weather combustion concentration of pollutants concentrations of smoke contamination correlation cough death rates DERV diagnostic diesel engines differences districts domestic effects of air emission England and Wales excess exhausts exposed Figure frequency fumes heating heavily polluted high pollution hydrocarbons increased industrial infection inhalation irritant less levels of air lung cancer MALE mortality from bronchitis mortality from lung motor vehicles Nitrogen dioxide number of deaths open grates particles patients periods pneumonia polluted air Pollution and Health population rates from bronchitis rates from cancer rates from lung relative respiratory diseases rural areas smoke and sulphur smoke control areas smokeless smoking habits social class standardised sulphur dioxide sulphuric acid survey temperature inversion tobacco smoke traffic Trends urban air urban factor µg/m³