{"product_id":"when-smoke-ran-like-water-9780465015214","title":"When Smoke Ran Like Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn When Smoke Ran Like Water  the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. By turns impassioned and analytic  she documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster--300 000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects of pollution--and asks why we remain silent. She shows how environmental toxins contribute to a broad spectrum of human diseases  including breast cancer  cardiovascular disease  asthma  and emphysema--all major killers--and in addition how these toxins affect the health and development of the heart and lungs  and even alter human reproductive capacity.But the battle against pollution is not just scientific. For Davis  its personal: pollution is what killed many in her family and forced the others  survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora  Pennsylvania  to live out their lives with damaged health. She vividly describes that episode and also makes startling revelations about how the deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza; how the oil companies and auto manufacturers fought for decades to keep lead in gasoline  while knowing it caused brain damage; behind-the-scenes accounts of the battle to recognize breast cancer as a major killer; and many other battles. When Smoke Ran Like Water makes a devastating case that our approaches to public health need to change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646960263221,"sku":"ByrdShop_0465015212","price":22.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780465015214.jpg?v=1781683457","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/when-smoke-ran-like-water-9780465015214","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}