Problems Caused By Air Pollution

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(Edelson 26). Not only
in the United States are health problems caused by air pollution showing up, but
they are also showing up in other parts of the world, like Europe. In 1930, in
Belgium's Meuse River valley, a major industrial region, where the primary fuel
was coal reported sixty deaths, and about 6,000 residents of the valley became
ill with breathing problems and respiratory infections (Edelson 25). In
December 1952, the toll was huge in London from the infamous smog, which caused
up to 4,000 deaths, when levels of sulfur oxides and particulates rose above
normal (Edelson 26). Air pollution also increased deaths from chronic lung
disease in the United States. "Although statistics on the physical effects of
air pollution are not easily calculated," according to Edelson, "an alarming
related statistic is that between 1970 and 1986, deaths in the United States
from chronic lung disease rose 36%" (35). Air pollution has cost a great deal
of money on health care in the ...

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