[cleanairuk_news] Recommended article Guardian (20 March 2013) ' UK air pollution: why are we only now waking up to this public health crisis?'

[Clean Air UK/ Network for Clean Air]

Excellent article by John Vidal from the Guardian newspaper (20 March  
2013) which summarises the state of the nation for air pollution/ air  
quality.

'UK air pollution: why are we only now waking up to this public health crisis?

'Traffic fumes across the country are provoking increased instances of  
asthma and other respiratory diseases. So what is being done about it?

'When Justin Bieber collapsed last week at the O2 arena in London and  
was taken to a private clinic feeling "short of breath" and needing  
oxygen, the rumours started flying that he had had an asthma attack.  
They were denied by his management, but it would have been  
understandable if he had. Most of last week, London's air was heavily  
polluted, with many of the capital's pollution  monitors recording  
"high" nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels as an acute photochemical smog of  
fumes and microscopic particles (PM) of acids, chemicals, metals and  
dust drifted in from the continent, mixed with London diesel exhaust  
and then became trapped in the still, dry air.

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[Full article here:  
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/19/uk-air-pollution-health-crisis]