Holy crap. Another reason to be glad we left England: a study of air quality in the UK has determined that breathing the air around Hammersmith – which is, oh, where we lived and worked for two years – is equivalent to smoking 27 cigarettes a day. No wonder I didn’t develop hayfever in London… My nose and lungs were completely coated in crap!
Dave
September 1, 2004 — 9:10 am
From the first two lines of that table, Glasgow City Chambers air has twice the pollutant ppB and mg/m3 of Aberdeen, but this represents just 14.6 Glaswegian cigarettes as opposed to 13.4 Aberdonians. Glasgow cigs must be nearly twice as dangerous as the ones sold in Aberdeen.
WeeB
September 1, 2004 — 9:02 pm
Hehe it’s well known that one of the streets in Glasgow where a lot of buses go up is one of the most polluted streets in the UK.