Comments by "" (@toni4729) on "The Tragedy of Air Pollution -- and an Urgent Demand for Clean Air | Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah |TED" video.

I was eleven months old and my brother was born in the London smog of 1952 when busses were being guided by men walking in front of them with lamps. I suppose we were lucky back then as it only lasted until the weather changed and blew the smogs away. You can't blow traffic away.
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@mikehinford I tend to disagree with you. I think it killed people and children with lung problems at the time no matter how minor but if they were healthy, they were not effected at all. I, for one, am seventy now and my brother smoked until we were into our fifties with no ill effects and are still in very good health. While I know I'm cherry picking here, I refer you to the great Lord Bertrand Russel who lived in London all his life and died aged 98 in 1970. Every photograph I can find of him he has a pipe in his has or mouth. While the smog certainly killed people and babies, I believe it was in mid Winter and those people more likely had colds or flu. I remember St Pauls dome was black back then, so I'm not making light of the subject, it was filthy. Now it's happening in China.
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