ABSTRACT
Recent years have witnessed robust campaigns to combat smoking through cessation interventions. These individual-level interventions have been combined with smoke-free regulations in public places. Accordingly, lung health has been dominated by the smoking agenda in health promotion campaigns. The more nebulous, but ubiquitous, variable of air quality is also relevant to understand, when we consider the health consequences of what we inhale. Although air environments are shared, some are exposed unequally to pollutants. The latter variability, according to class, locality and occupation invites our interest below. This chapter considers smoking and health but also the lesser considered question of air pollution and the inequalities implied.
