Health Impacts
How many people were killed by the smog in only a few days?
What is about 4,000 to 12,000?
Name one long-term disease caused by bad air pollution.
What is heart disease, lung disease, or cancer?
Air pollution costs the UK more than how much money in bad health Impacts?
What is £500 million?
What fuel did the UK rely heavily on during the 1900s?
What is Coal?
What happened to hospitals during the smog?
What is they became overcrowded?
About how many people became ill with breathing problems?
What is about 100,000?
Air pollution caused many deaths in which country?
What is the United Kingdom?
About how many people are killed every week by dirty air?
What is about 500 people a week?
Name one place that burns huge amounts of coal daily.
What are factories, homes, trains, or power stations?
Patients in hospitals were struggling to do what during the smog?
What is breathe?
What weather event trapped pollutants at ground level?
What is Temperature Inversion?
What vital part of the body was most affected by chronic respiratory diseases?
What is the respiratory system?
Poorer communities faced a higher risk of what disease?
What is lung disease?
Which three cities produced large amounts of smoke and soot?
What are Manchester, London, and Birmingham?
Name one illness that increased during the smog.
What is pneumonia, lung infections, or heart failure?
Visibility during the smog dropped to less than what distance?
What is less than one meter?
Long-term air pollution damage could increase the risk of what deadly disease?
What is cancer?
Dirty air made healthcare systems experience what major problem?
What are high healthcare costs?
What two things combined to create dangerous smog?
What is smoke and fog?
The smog caused major disruption to what part of daily life?
What is traffic and transportation?
Which vulnerable groups were especially harmed by the smog?
Who were the older people or the younger children?
Besides lungs, pollution can harm almost every what in the body?
What is every organ?
Air pollution harmed air quality in what indoor places?
What are schools, hospitals, and homes?
Why did millions of homes burn cheap coal in fireplaces?
What is to stay warm during winter?
What caused pollutants and cold air to stay trapped near the ground?
What is temperature inversion?