Is there a correlation between smog and human disease?

Is there a correlation between smog and human disease?

Terry Tamminen (Author & Environmental Policy Advisor) gives expert video advice on: Is there a correlation between smog and human disease? and more...

There is a very direct correlation between smog and human disease. In the United States alone, 100,000 people die prematurely from completely preventable petroleum-related air pollution and six and a half million more suffer from asthma just from petroleum-related air pollution. That means from the tailpipes of our cars and trucks. Many more suffer because of emissions of particulate matter: that's the fine soot that might come from, for example, a coal-fired power plant.