Pollution May Trigger Heart Attacks

American Voices

March 10, 2011 | ISSUE 47•10

An analysis of data by European researchers shows that 7.4 percent of heart attacks are triggered by exposure to roadway smog. What do you think?

Well at least Americans die free behind the wheel, maybe even with the top down, instead of cooped up in some Socialist European mass transit system."

Paul McGee
Braille Typist
Seriously? But sitting in traffic is the only thing that helps me remember what it was like to be employed."

Michael Innes
Unemployed
Smog? No way. The movies make it perfectly clear that heart attacks are caused by sex, cocaine, or playfully chasing after your grandson with a big orange wedge in your mouth."

Leah Popple
Gauger

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