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, ...

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 ...

Air pollution causes health problems and is attributable to some 50,000 annual deaths in the United States, but not all air pollutants pack the same punch.

The smog arrived on July 8, 1943. Some thought it was chemical warfare by a foreign country. Former Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron said he would get rid of the "vexing fumes" within four months ...

Los Angeles' first documented smog attack — yes, we had smog attacks — was in 1943. We've been fighting the sources of pollution and the quirks of geography that trap it ever since.

DURING the winter months, the air in Lahore becomes almost unbreathable, with thick layers of smog enveloping the city. The health consequences of smog are dire, ranging from respiratory illnesses ...

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 ...