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COMMENTS: Fresh Air Gives us Five Extra Months
It has been almost 30 years since the Clean Air Act imposed restrictions on the "very fine particles spewed from tailpipes and smokestacks" that bypass the natural filters of the human body and pollute our lungs and heart, Anne Thompson pointed out for NBC's In Depth report. In that time, the air has cleared and our health has improved. She quoted research from The New England Journal of Medicine that calculates that soot reduction has increased national life expectancy by five months.
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