Publication

This publication discusses the strategy adopted by developed countries to protect the health of their citizens by monitoring and regulating outdoor air pollution. The author states that 90 percent of people’s time in developed countries is spent indoors where cigarette smoke, household deodorizers and dry-cleaned clothes expose people to greater concentrations of pollutants than they will find outdoors in the most congested cities. The author concludes that measuring pollution where people are could result in dramatic changes in policy and funding priorities for controlling air pollution.