No doubt, smog slows you down. It's harder to breathe and that causes you to take deeper breaths. You take in a lot of filth. That heat and smog can zap you. Unhealthful levels of ozone irritate the eyes, reduce breathing capacity, inflame lung tissue, reduce the respiratory system's ability to fight infection and may accelerate the lung's aging process and increase asthma attacks.
Some people also experience chest pains, coughing, wheezing and nausea.
Recent studies show that unhealthful air in urban areas may shorten an individual's life span by up to three years. Fine particulate and nitrogen dioxide cause similar symptoms. He and his brother Brian Foust, age 10, are asthmatic. I'm down for three to four days. But, her main concern is how smog affects her children, especially while they are in school.