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0x2a on Sept 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: San Francisco and Portland Ranked Most Polluted Ma...

WHO includes smoke in their overview page on air pollution as does Wikipedia.

- https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution#Sources

pstrateman on Sept 11, 2020 [–]

Most smoke that is air pollution is caused by farmers burning crops.

You can include smoke in air pollution numbers, while not considering wild fires to be pollution.

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