Editing Smog (section)

== Etymology ==
Coinage of the term "smog" has been attributed to [[Henry Antoine Des Voeux]] in his 1905 paper, "Fog and Smoke" for a meeting of the [[Public Health Congress]]. The 26 July 1905 edition of the London newspaper ''Daily Graphic'' quoted Des Voeux, "He said it required no science to see that there was something produced in great cities which was not found in the country, and that was smoky fog, or what was known as 'smog'."<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.psi.ch/ceg/PublicationsEN/Piazzesi,_PhD_thesis,_ETH_Zurich,_2006.pdf |first=Gaia |last=Piazzesi |year=2006 |title=The Catalytic Hydrolysis of Isocyanic Acid (HNCO) in the Urea-SCR Process |type=PhD Thesis |publisher=[[ETH Zurich]] |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201131651/https://www.psi.ch/ceg/PublicationsEN/Piazzesi,_PhD_thesis,_ETH_Zurich,_2006.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The following day the newspaper stated that "Dr. Des Voeux did a public service in coining a new word for the London fog."

However, the term appeared twenty-five years earlier than Voeux's paper, in the Santa Cruz & Monterey Illustrated Handbook published in 1880<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AcZBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA8|first=Henry|last=Meyrick|year=1880|title=Santa Cruz & Monterey Illustrated Handbook|publisher=San Francisco News Publishing Co.|pages=7–8|quote=It is really not fog at all, but cloud of pure white mist, warmer and much less wetting than a "Scotch mist," and differing entirely from the true British fog, facetiously spelled "smog," because always colored and strongly impregnated with smoke, a mixture as unwholesome as it is unpleasant.}}</ref>  and also appears in print in a column quoting from the book in the 3 July 1880, Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCWS18800703.1.3&srpos=41&e=-------en--20--41-byDA-txt-txIN-smog-------1|newspaper=Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel|title=The morning fog|date=3 July 1880|access-date=18 September 2019|page=3|quote=It is really not fog at all, but cloud of pure white mist. warmer and much less wetting than a "Scotch Mist," not differing entirely from the true British fog, facetiously spelled "smog" because always colored and strongly impregnated with smoke, a mixture as unwholesome as it is unpleasant.|archive-date=14 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414035444/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCWS18800703.1.3&srpos=41&e=-------en--20--41-byDA-txt-txIN-smog-------1|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 17 December 1881, in the publication ''Sporting Times,'' the author claims to have invented the word: "The 'Smog'{{snd}}a word I have invented, combined of smoke and fog, to designate the London atmosphere..."<ref>Playhouses without Plays, Sporting Times, London, 17 December 1881, p6. Accessed 12 September 2020, The British Newspaper Archive.</ref>