Originally published June 21 2005
Smog problems in Ontario getting worse
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Earth and Justice News reiterates the warnings of experts: If you want to go outside in Ontario, you are exposing yourself to a level of smog that is killing 5,800 Ontario citizens a year.
C. L. Cook -PEJ News - The Ontario Medical Association released its estimates of 5,800 Ontarians dying a premature death due to air pollution today.
Like the equinox, OMA's the annual report has become a mark of departure for the turning seasons.
It's officially summer in Toronto, and that means the old and the young, and those suffering asthma, or taking certain pharmaceuticals are forewarned to venture only into the outside world at their peril.
The never-ending multiplication of the automobiles, Ontario's famous "business first" attitude toward air pollution legislation and enforcement, and markedly warmer weather now promise every day could be Smog Day.
If you take a drive some Friday afternoon out to the 400, the highway heading north to Muskoka and cottage country, you'll get a good idea of why Toronto, and now the distant lakeside refuge sought by its denizens, is in trouble.
Many of those thousands being SUV's, minivans, and monster trucks; many will be towing and stowing Seadoo's, powerboats, and the plethora of gas-powered landscaping machines deemed necessary to manicure the wilds around the summer place.
There are approximately 200 coal-fired power plants just south of the border, and millions of cars and other factories contributing to the murk pushed across the landscape by the hot air currents that begin their life in the sultry oil Gulf of Mexico.
The Ontario Medical Association's report, 'The Illness Costs of Air Pollution' documents long-term exposure to air pollution and charts contributing factors to heart attacks, lung cancer, and the burgeoning urban asthma epidemic.
In Toronto, Dr. David Yapp, of the Ontario's Ministry of the Enviroment says this year's smog alert is unprecedented in the 22 years they've conducted studies.
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