Long-term exposure to air pollution, especially ground-level ozone, is like smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day for many years, a new study says, and like smoking, it can can lead to emphysema.

Smog And Other Air Pollution Is Linked To Lung Damage, COPD : ... outside your home was equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for 29 years," says one study author, ...

Long-term exposure to air pollution, especially ground-level ozone, is like smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day for many years, a new study says, and like smoking, it can can lead to emphysema.

LOS ANGELES - Air pollution could be causing emphysema, even in people who have never smoked, a study published Tuesday in the journal JAMA found. A long-term increase of just three parts per ...

(CN) – Health researchers report air pollution is causing lung diseases – particularly emphysema – to occur on a massive scale, an acceleration made worse by climate change. The study, published ...

Increasing Air Pollution Causes Lung Disease Equivalent to Smoking Pack of Cigarettes a Day for 29 Years Published Aug 13, 2019 at 6:32 PM EDT Updated Aug 14, 2019 at 1:55 PM EDT By ...

We already know the way air pollution can cause heart and other lung diseases. Now, we can add emphysema—which can age the lungs and accelerate death—to the list of threats these communities face.

Air pollution used to be much worse. In October of 1948, a thick, choking smog settled over the small Pennsylvania town of Donora. The town was home to two steel plants.

For decades, Southern California’s war on smog has focused on strategies to reduce pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks. But one of the main drivers of lung-aggravating smog may be right ...

LOS ANGELES - Air pollution could be causing emphysema, even in people who have never smoked, a study published Tuesday in the journal JAMA found. A long-term increase of just three parts per ...