Teleworking substitutes technology for travel. It can done every day of the week with a computer, modem and other home-office items, or done one day a week with paper and pen. You can't see it, feel it, or taste it, but smog, or ground-level ozone, envelops the Atlanta region. And it's hazardous to the region in many ways. Air pollution can kill.
Studies attribute tens of thousands of premature deaths each year to air pollution.
Low-lying smog is linked to emergency room visits from people who suffer from lung problems. Other health effects include coughing, choking, nausea, chest pain, headaches, lung inflammation, breathing difficulty and eye irritation. This emits 400 tons of pollution into the air. Per capita, metro Atlantans drive an average of 34 miles, farther than residents of any other metro area in the country. The average car emits more than 120 pounds of smog-forming emissions each year.