What are the health effects of smog on the human body?

What are the health effects of smog on the human body?

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

Smog on the human body acts in a number of very, very harmful ways. First of all, some of the components of smog include ozone, which actually oxidize, or kind of eat at the soft tissue of your lungs, and they can reduce lung function temporarily or permanently, up to thirty or fifty percent. They also execerbate existing diseases; if you have asthma for example, smog makes it worse. Various other components of smog are known to cause cancer and asthma, and other respiratory diseases.