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A US study has suggested that more than 80 million people in China will die in the next 25 years as a result of lung disease. One in three cigarettes in the world is smoked in China.
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Hi Grace!! Cool post, as usual...
Here’s a related and little-known story, even in England.
”The Great Smog” as it was called, happened in London over a week in 1952 and was caused by coal-smoke combined with propitious (no wind/high humidity/low temperatures etc) atmospheric conditions. All activity stopped for four or five days. For example, with visibility at one yard, driving was impossible, and even theatres shut down because people couldn’t see the screens!!!
Result - 12000 deaths, of which 4500 occured during the smog and the rest over a one-month period afterwards. Causes of death were generally respiration-related ilnesses. Frightening huh? This kind of thing happened several times in England over a 150-year period. (Incidentally, British policy on coal and clean air changed drastically afterwards).
I lived in England while coal was still around. Horrible. I now live in a ”nuclear” country (France), and although nuclear isn’t perfect, it has killed many fewer people than coal ever did and, until we find something better, I support it. People tend to forget this when criticising nuclear, particularly younger people who didn’t live the only viable alternative at the time....
Good day to you Grace!
Michael
Here’s a related and little-known story, even in England.
”The Great Smog” as it was called, happened in London over a week in 1952 and was caused by coal-smoke combined with propitious (no wind/high humidity/low temperatures etc) atmospheric conditions. All activity stopped for four or five days. For example, with visibility at one yard, driving was impossible, and even theatres shut down because people couldn’t see the screens!!!
Result - 12000 deaths, of which 4500 occured during the smog and the rest over a one-month period afterwards. Causes of death were generally respiration-related ilnesses. Frightening huh? This kind of thing happened several times in England over a 150-year period. (Incidentally, British policy on coal and clean air changed drastically afterwards).
I lived in England while coal was still around. Horrible. I now live in a ”nuclear” country (France), and although nuclear isn’t perfect, it has killed many fewer people than coal ever did and, until we find something better, I support it. People tend to forget this when criticising nuclear, particularly younger people who didn’t live the only viable alternative at the time....
Good day to you Grace!
Michael
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Thanks for another insightful tidbit, Michael. You do enrich materials here at IB with your info bytes.
You’re cool!
You’re cool!
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Maybe that damn smoking ban should be enforced there instead.
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The first research interviewed the families of one million people who had died in 24 cities and 74 rural counties to establish if the dead person had smoked.
The second study is ongoing and is looking at quarter of a million men aged over 40.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/216998.stm
Dr Alan Lopez of the World Health Organisation, told a news conference in London: ”In the West, cigarettes cause lots of heart attack deaths, while in China smoking causes unexpectedly large numbers of deaths from tuberculosis, emphysema, stomach cancer and liver cancer.
Nearly three-quarters of all Chinese men are smokers. Two-thirds of Chinese people think smoking does little or no harm.