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Originally Posted by mav1178
Want to know how bad CA smog was?
The 1950s and 1960s basically are about the same as present day Beijing.
We have more than double the amount of cars vs 1960 and yet only 40% of the pollution we used to have.
-alex
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I never experienced it. I did however see what Toronto was like in the 60s and early 70s and that was very, very bad so it must have been hellish there. The guys that never smelled and tasted thousands of uncatted cars sitting in traffic really have no clue just how bad it was before the converters existed. As you said the number of cars has way more than doubled so the places that were bad before would be uninhabitable now.