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by mherdeg 4841 days ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I knew about the Great Smog of 1952 from, uh, science fiction (Neil Gaiman's novelization of _Neverwhere_) but it had not occurred to me to wonder why my recently built flat does not have a fireplace.

Apparently my colleagues all know this — everyone just knows that it's OK to burn smokeless coal (anthracite) but not wood.