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The National Book Award Finalist from a leading public-health expert, this is the unknown story of how environmental pollution has affected our health-past, present, and future Through the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle to protect public health, Devra Davis knows firsthand the devastating effects of environmental pollution. for Davis, the issue is personal: pollution killed several members of her family and sickened half her home town of Donora, Pennsylvania. but the problem is not limited to one place or group of people. In When Smoke Ran Like Water, David makes starling revelations about how thousands of deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza. She exposes how the oil companies and auto manufacturers bought for decades to keep lead in gasoline while know it caused brain damage. She gives inside accounts of the battle to recognize breast cancer as a major killer. And she describes how major firms have lobbied, cajoled, and manipulated scientists and the government regarding the hazards of toxic chemicals. Vital and stirring, this is the unknown story of how environmental pollution is affecting us right now - and how it might affect us for generations to come.--BOOK COVER In 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. 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. For Davis, the issue is Pollution is what killed many in her family and forced some of the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She 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; and many other battles. When Smoke Ran Like Water makes a devastating case for change. An Epidemiologist Identifies Some 300,000 Annual Deaths In The U.s. And Europe Due To Pollution, Making Revelations About Historical And Smog-related Mass Casualties, And Calling For Major Public Changes. Where I Come From -- The Phantom Epidemic -- How To Become A Statistic -- How The Game Is Played -- Zones Of Incomprehension -- The New Sisterhood Of Breast Cancer -- Save The Males -- Earthquakes And Spouting Bowls -- A Grand Experiment -- Defiant Figures. Devra Davis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 287-304) And Index. 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 and asks why we remain silent. DONORA, PENNSYLVANIA, was the kind of place where an adventure three-year-old like my brother Marty could wander five miles away from home and never really be lost.