What are two ways pollution can harm people?

Question

What are two ways pollution can harm people?

Answer 1

two ways pollution can harm you: long term exposure can cause genetic modifications (birth defects), illness (cancer) , or death.


Short term exposure can cause genetic modifications, illness, or death

Answer 2

Pollution more than triples a person's chances of getting lung cancer, and quadruples the chances of an asthmatic person having a life threatening attack. hope this helps

Answer 3

i. Human waste that is discharged from large cruise ships as they near the ports contaminates 'beach' waters in the shallows. This, in turn, causes infectious diseases in the beach-goers.

2. Agricultural pesticides and fertilizers that flow into drainage systems and enter the Intercoastal Waterway (East Coast of US) cause contamination of the environment altering and destroying the sensitive ecology of the ocean back-water. This, in turn affects the fishing (primarily crustaceans, oysters and such - food source) and also the recreation.

Answer 4

there are several types of pollutions ,

like noise pollution in downtown area

smog (when smog mixes with sunlight , it can produce something ,i can remeber, which is really danagerous to human being)

water pollution ,
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