Somehow, after the demise of the great London “peasouper” smogs, the idea got
about in Britain that dirty air no longer killed. Well, it does: perhaps 60 000
people a year in the US, 10 000 in Britain. Particles in Our Air, edited by
Harvard public health scientists Richard Wilson and John Spengler, resurrects
the health scandal we forgot (Harvard University Press, £15.95, ISBN 0 674
24077 4).
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