We banned smoking in many urban and suburban environments — yet, the combustion of many of the most common fossil fuels in use today produces equally hazardous airborne waste products, harming humans, pets & wildlife.
Very fine, sub-2.5 micron particles are released that can lodge deep into lung tissue and be very difficult for the lung’s cleaning mechanism to remove effectively.
For example, diesel exhaust contains over 20 known toxic compounds that are highly carcinogenic.
Exposures have been linked with acute short-term symptoms such as: headache, dizziness, light-headedness, nausea, coughing, difficult or labored breathing, tightness of chest, and irritation of the eyes and nose and throat.
Long-term exposures of these toxic gases can lead to chronic, more serious health problems such as: cardiovascular disease, cardiopulmonary disease, asthma and aggressive metastatic lung cancer.
The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide over 7 MILLION people die every year as a result of airborne pollution.
