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Sep. 21, 2007
Airplane Air
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| Who hasn't gotten off a plane blaming the stale cabin air for their stuffy nose, dry throat, and headache? A new study says passengers are partly to blame for bad in-flight air. It's not all your fault, however - new research says that ozone brought into the cabin while a plane is in flight may combine with skin oils and other materials in the cabin to make an airborne witches brew of potentially irritating chemicals. |
Produced by Karin Vergoth
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Charles Weschler
Visiting Professor, International Centre
for Indoor Environment and Energy
Technical University of Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
Adjunct Professor, Environmental and Occupational Medicine
Member, Environmental and Occupational
Health Sciences Institute
University of Medicine and Dent
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