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Air Pollution

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  • A healthy horse, representing the healthy effects of free trade. Coloured lithograph by J. West Giles after Sir E. Landseer.
  • Smoke : a study of town air / by Julius B. Cohen and Arthur G. Ruston.
  • Become a pain in the arse : join Greenpeace and make things happen / Greenpeace.
  • The peril in the air / The Peps Co.
  • A block of flats which turns into a packet of cigarettes, surrounded by factories with smoking chimneys; representing the pollutant effects of cigarette smoking. Colour lithograph after I.V. Tomash, 1988.
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    Farther hints for restoring animation, and for preserving mankind against the pernicious influence of noxious vapours, or, contaminated air, in a second letter to Dr. Hawes.

    Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813. | Date: 1783
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    Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants report May 1992-December 1993 and Advisory Group on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollution Episodes activities report 1990-1993.

    Great Britain. Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants. | Date: 1994
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    Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.

    Kiechle, Melanie A. | Date: [2017]
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    Coal : a human history / Barbara Freese.

    Freese, Barbara (Barbara E.) | Date: 2005
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    Air Pollution and Human Health / National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (Great Britain).

    National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (Great Britain) | Date: 1992
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