Automobiles and Air Pollution :
(The number of autovehicles on roads has immensely increased. They have become a major source of pollution, particularly air pollution)
The detail are under: A filthy grey haze of winter mist, auto exhausts and the chemicals hang lower and longer the ever before in world's most polluted cities. The smoke makes the eyes water, coats the lungs with layer of microscopic, noxious soot; and covers us with black grime, The situation of air pollution has reached to such a grim state which presents a fierce
scene given as follows:
1. In metropolitan cities, the air we breathe, is so harmful that it is equivalent to smoking of 10 to 20 cigarettes a day.
2. In India, more than 40,000 premature deaths occur due to air pollution every year as reported by World Bank.
3. Air pollutants viz. sulphur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen as NO2, suspended particulate matter (SPM) and respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) have been great cause of air pollution.
4. Recent studies reveal that the number of patients with respíratory diseases and allergies have roughly doubled since 1990. In major cities, fast growing traffic and congestion of traffic routes are the major culprits among others.
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