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Originally Posted by slowcoach
Smoke is good for you!
When I was growing up there were hundreds of mills belching out black smoke 24/7, all the houses had coal fires and the wind would blow down the chimneys and fill the room with smoke, pea-soupers were an adventure to be enjoyed yet kids didn't have asthma or eczema, come the Clean Air Act suddenly half the kids had asthma and the other half had eczema. What more proof could anyone want?
Bring back coal.... coal means health.  |
I do hope you are joking slowcoach.
I also lived through those times but I also remember members of my family and friends having to cope with debilitating periods where their Bronchitis had them gasping for breath and the soaring death rates of both adults and children after a period of bad pollution such as smog. Just because the diagnosis of an illness has been made more accurate does not mean the illness wasn't there and being lumped under the general term of "bronchitis".
http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/68/1/95.full