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Would you lock yourself in a box of smog–for science?
09/27/2018 | 5m 23s
| Video has closed captioning.
Long-term exposure to air pollution is one of the leading environmental causes of death worldwide. Researchers at the Air Pollution Exposure Lab study participants who spend two hours in a plexiglass box filled with diesel exhaust calibrated to mimic the air quality of Beijing.
