Is anyone really surprised at this?
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On October 17 CNN reported the World Health Organisation's finding that air pollution is now officially causing cancer. They went a step further in declaring that, in 2010, air pollution took the lives of 223,000 people.
Four or five years ago I was forced to go outside Siam Paragon to smoke a cigarette. I noted that people were walking around me in an attempt to save their lives. Not 50 feet away there was a major traffic jam and thousands of cars were spewing smoke into the air, but no one else seemed to notice. I remember chuckling that people could not understand that the air of their city was hopelessly polluted, but they were ducking my second-hand smoke. What really bothers me is that, if I figured it out, why did it take a covey of scientists so long to come to the same conclusion?
Shame on all of you.
John Arnone
Yasothon
