Editing Smog (section)

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[[File:07 01 2020 - VERONA SMOG - prefiltro (filtro cappa antigrasso, grease filter hood) su VMC (ventilazione meccanizzata controllata) dopo 4 giorni (parte bianca coperta da nastro adesivo) - 2020 01 07 - photo Paolo Villa.png|thumb|Grease filter hood after 4 days at Italian city polluted air in winter (all surface was white)]]
Other areas of the United Kingdom were affected by smog, especially heavily industrialised areas.

The cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, in Scotland, suffered smoke-laden fogs in 1909. Des Voeux, commonly credited with creating the "smog" moniker, presented a paper in 1911 to the Manchester Conference of the Smoke Abatement League of Great Britain about the fogs and resulting deaths.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.grida.no/geo/GEO/Geo-3-010.htm | title = The Great Smog Of 1952 | publisher = The Met Office | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194334/http://www.grida.no/geo/GEO/Geo-3-010.htm | archive-date = 29 October 2013 }}</ref>

One [[Birmingham]] resident described near black-out conditions in the 1900s before the Clean Air Act, with visibility so poor that cyclists had to dismount and walk to stay on the road.<ref>{{Cite journal | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/10/a4914010.shtml | publisher = [[BBC]] |title = When smog was a frequent occurrence | journal = WW2 People's War | date = 10 August 2005 | access-date = 3 August 2006 }}</ref>

On 29 April 2015, the [[UK Supreme Court]] ruled that the government must take immediate action to cut air pollution,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32512152 |title=Court orders UK to cut NO2 air pollution |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=29 April 2015 |access-date=29 April 2015}}</ref> following a case brought by environmental lawyers at ClientEarth.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.clientearth.org/news/press-releases/uk-supreme-court-orders-government-to-take-immediate-action-on-air-pollution-2843 |title=UK Supreme Court orders Government to take "immediate action" on air pollution |publisher=ClientEarth |date=29 April 2015 |access-date=29 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505041213/http://www.clientearth.org/news/press-releases/uk-supreme-court-orders-government-to-take-immediate-action-on-air-pollution-2843 |archive-date=5 May 2015 }}</ref>