From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   Physfitfreak wrote:   
   >   
   > I've had this question for a few years. I thought somebody who's from   
   > India can answer that but the only Indian we have in this forum is the   
   > equivalent of a buffoon to answer such questions.   
   >   
   > Today I took a glimpse at the reason. I read in a telegram channel that   
   > Dehli's AQI today was 432!... There was a picture of the highways there   
   > also, in which one could not see more than 20 meteres ahead. Air is   
   > packed with pollution and smoke.   
   >   
   > I don't go walking when AQI (air quality index) is over 60. I consider   
   > it overal harmful if I do. In this area in Texas the AQI can get as high   
   > as 90, and that keeps people who want to walk or run or even go out for   
   > errands at home. It happens on a few rare days in the Summer.   
   >   
   > But Dehli's people are living inside 432 AQI, home or outside... I think   
   > the answer to my question should have to do with this fact.   
   >   
   > Tehran is one of the most polluted cities in the world. From the balcony   
   > of our house in extreme north of Tehran, which was (now there are high   
   > rise apartment buildings there) on the slopes of Alborz one could see   
   > way beyond the southern end of Tehran and Rey, easily even the mountains   
   > just north of Saveh. This was so when I was a kid. Tehran in those years   
   > had good air all year long.   
   >   
   > Then in my teens Tehran's pollution as a problem was born and when it   
   > would get very bad we could only see the northern parts of Tehran. The   
   > middle and southern parts were blocked by smog. This happened on many   
   > days durimg Summer.   
   >   
   > Right before I came here, Tehran's smog was there year long. There were   
   > no exception day left. We could only see the northern parts and that was   
   > it. I thought that was the worst case of pollution that I had ever   
   > experienced.   
   >   
   > But today's picture from Dehli shows a scene from Hell. I just checked   
   > to see what a 432 AQI means for health. This is what I got from internet:   
   >   
   >     "301–500 AQI: Hazardous – Health warnings of emergency conditions.   
   > The entire population is likely to be affected."   
   >   
   > So if you're _living_ under such conditions, and not just experiencing   
   > it once or twice a year, then this must be why young Indians drop dead   
   > of heart attack.   
   >   
   > Come to think of it, this might even explain the behavior of the   
   > resident Indian guy in this forum. I bet it has consequences on one's IQ   
   > as well.   
      
   it's caused by the shaking of their heads when they talk.   
      
      
      
      
      
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