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The Great Smog ‘The smog of London’ or ‘The Great Smog’ is the biggest air pollution incident that happened in London on Friday 5th until Tuesday 9th December 1952. It was caused by the cold weather and the anticyclone meteorology phenomenon, and beside of that the air pollution is also caused by an exaggerated use of coal. This incident wasn’t considered as a dangerous event on that time, but it turned out that this phenomenon had a great impact on environmental research, government regulation, and public health. This incident cause 4000 deaths and more than 100.000 respiratory disorder on many people. But later it was discovered that there are 12.000 deaths caused by the great smog. Most of the victims were caused by respiratory tract infections, from hypoxia and as a result of mechanical obstruction of the air passages by pus arising from lung infections caused by the smog.Most of the victims were v...
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