Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA's is even worse.

https://grist.org/health/wildfire-smoke-is-are-always-toxic-las-is-even-worse/

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ownsauce@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Maybe they'll see an increase in 9/11 first responder style cancers and lung issues over the next few years.

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I think almost certainly. With the scale of the fire, I think a lot of people may see that increase.

PanArab@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Good thing 9/11 first responder were well taken care of.

Windex007@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Thankfully it didn't take a tv host to get it done like 20 years after the fact.

Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Given how this is becoming a yearly tradition, I'd expect that rise is already in progress.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y

So is traffic pollution, doesn't seem to bother most people? Bother as in, give no fuks. Eg in Australia it kiils an estimated 11,000 a year. I can inagibe it being less then 100k on the USA.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/air-pollution-modelling-university-of-melbourne-traffic/102015778

Thwb there is the whole mask issue during Covid, how many did not wearing a mask kill?