Poor Air Quality and Its Effects on Human Health.

In this day and age, nature harming activities such as deforestation, clearcutting and illegal logging are at their peak to provide new plots of land to build skyscrapers and highways. While immense advancements in technology and industry have made life much easier, these man-made creations have also created a global problem – air pollution. Air pollution is the introduction and addition of harmful substances such as carbon monoxide and lead compounds into the atmosphere which causes harmful effects to the environment and human health. It is one of the main types of pollution which typically occurs in busy cities which resulted to poor air quality which has been known to be harmful to our bodies but people don’t seem to realize the severity of its effects. Although our poor air quality is inevitable with modern development, society is still not doing enough to improve it. For instance, there are a number inconsiderate parties that are still practicing harmful activities such as open burning which occurs when individuals burn any form of waste in open air while excessive smoke emissions from factories that’s often occur in industrial areas in major cities. Poor air quality has been a worldwide problem for some time now and yet we still take it for granted. Exposure to low quality air would cause health problems in the respiratory system. I have a mild respiratory problem due to poor quality of air where I was exposed to unhealthy air due to the high number of smokers as well as very congested traffic in the my city. People need to know that second-hand smokers which are people who involuntarily inhale the air around smokers are worse off than smokers themselves. According My father was one of those smokers and he quit smoking because he did not want to deteriorate our family’s health any further. I want to know