Italians Blame Pizza Ovens and Vespas for Deadly Smog

DESOLATION OF SMOG

Italians, finally confronted with the fact bad air kills 30,000 people a year, take all kinds of drastic and largely irrelevant measures.

Published Dec. 28 2015 1:25PM EST

ROME — This has been a bad year for Italians in large cities who like to breathe. Milan has been under a blanket of thick yellow smog, topping the international bad air quality level, known as particulate matter 10 or PM10, more than 97 times in 2015.

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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Italians Blame Pizza Ovens and Vespas for Deadly Smog

Italians, finally confronted with the fact bad air kills 30,000 people a year, take all kinds of drastic and largely irrelevant measures.

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Barbie Latza Nadeau