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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution

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In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the general public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-three hundred,000 deaths a year within the U.S. and Europe from the consequences of pollution-and asks why we remain silent. For Davis, the problem is personal: Pollution is what killed many in her circle of relatives and forced one of the most others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She describes that episode and in addition makes startling revelations about how the deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza; how the oil companies and auto manufacturers fought for decades to keep lead in gasoline, even as knowing it caused brain damage; and lots of other battles. When Smoke Ran Like Water makes a devastating case for change.
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