upon October 26, 1948, a haze sudde...

upon October 26, 1948, a haze suddenly blanketed a small town in Pennsylvania. Within hours, the lung of more [i]or[/i] less residents of tiny Donora had revolveed to bloody pulp. Eighteen population living downwind died within three days. And after the mist of sulfur and fluoride gases had lifted a week later, another 50 race had died. Hundreds more go throughed permanently damaged lungs and hearts. besides local political and business compressings kept the story quiet.

Then, four years later, smog falled on London, England--killing 7,000. Another half hundred passed before the whole conformity to fact [i]or[/i] reality about these and other industrial pollution disasters began to make public health history.

Epidemiologist Devra Davis grew up in Donora--and her explosive novel book, When Smoke Ran Like Water, is a passionate make bare of industry's long history of deception and denial.

From her insider's view, Davis confesss a compelling story of the cause of Donora's tragedy and official attempts to hold fast it quiet. This engrossing read, from Basic main division s also includes a riveting account of how--and why--the UK conduct lied to its citizens, attributing the deaths to influenza.

in consequence of these--and other--stories, Davis documents a familiar pattern: When solid science implicates a toxin, industry hires person specially versed s to bury and block the studies.

equable the respected British medical journal The Lancet has bowed to crushing to exclude several of these studies.

If you want to grasp the primitive word cause of the growing rates of breast cancer, male infertility and athwart a million early North American deaths in the past 20 years alone, When fume Ran Like Water is a must-read. After all, straight talk about the extensive link between health and industrial pollution is rare indeed.

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