{"id":155627,"date":"2013-05-07T00:38:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T07:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=155627"},"modified":"2013-05-07T00:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T07:38:21","slug":"concerned-about-beijing-smog-buy-a-gas-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/05\/concerned-about-beijing-smog-buy-a-gas-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerned About Beijing Smog? Buy a Gas Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Businessweek contributor Christina Larson reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-05-06\/new-travel-accessory-for-beijing-gas-mask\"><strong>gas masks are the latest must-have accessory for the commuting Beijing resident<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One friend, who works for an environmental nonprofit in Beijing, advised: \u201cI have a Sportsta mask made by Respro, a U.K. company, which has a replaceable filter, which you can replace every 2 to 3 months with regular use. However, size-wise, it\u2019s not great for women, especially women who have smaller faces.\u201d To function optimally, he added, \u201cIt should be a snug fit.\u201d Ideally, I should locate a store in the U.S. that sells them, but as fallback, such high-end foreign-made gas masks are now selling briskly on Taobao.com, China\u2019s leading e-retailer.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to buying face masks, people in China who can afford them are also picking up indoor air filters. Most office workers spend 80 percent of their time indoors, but Beijing\u2019s poorly insulated buildings can\u2019t fully keep the smog outside. Meanwhile, in the wake of a recent scandal over China\u2019s failure to properly regulate bottled water, I\u2019ve also been advised to purchase equipment for filtering water at home or in hotel rooms. For all China\u2019s success in building some kinds of modern infrastructure\u2014airports and highways, for instance\u2014a string of recent public-health lapses has given rise to a grim, do-it-yourself approach to pollution control and personal safety. (To be sure, there\u2019s a limit to which anyone can truly insulate herself from the city she breathes in.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Posts tagged with air pollution\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/air-pollution\/\" rel=\"tag\">Air pollution<\/a>\u00a0in Beijing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/01\/air-pollution-in-beijing-off-the-charts\/\">reached record levels in January<\/a>\u00a0as the capital city battled a winter \u201c<a title=\"Posts tagged with airpocalypse\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/airpocalypse\/\" rel=\"tag\">airpocalypse<\/a>\u201d that one Chinese\u00a0<a title=\"Posts tagged with public health\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/public-health\/\" rel=\"tag\">public health<\/a>\u00a0expert called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/03\/beijing-air-quality-worse-than-sars\/\">worse than SARS<\/a>. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/04\/air-pollutant-levels-rise-in-beijing\/\">levels of two key air pollutants in Beijing rose by nearly 30%<\/a>\u00a0in the first three months of the year, and Larson also points out that China\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/china\/2013-04\/02\/c_132280186.htm\">just suffered its smoggiest March in 52 years<\/a>.\u00a0Several recent studies have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/03\/new-studies-link-pollution-to-birth-defects\/\">linked pollution to birth defects<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/04\/pollution-effects-glaring-but-can-china-adapt\/\">premature deaths<\/a>\u00a0in China, and the country\u2019s new leaders have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/03\/pollution-forces-chinese-leaders-to-act\/\">declared \u201cecological progress\u201d a priority<\/a>\u00a0even though bureaucratic infighting has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/03\/as-pollution-worsens-solutions-succumb-to-infighting\/\">threatened to complicate any potential solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Businessweek contributor Christina Larson reports that gas masks are the latest must-have accessory for the commuting Beijing resident: One friend, who works for an environmental nonprofit in Beijing, advised: \u201cI have a Sportsta mask made by Respro, a U.K. company, which has a replaceable filter, which you can replace every 2 to 3 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[132,34,14744,14745,14746,5],"tags":[348,15991,5811,302,641],"class_list":["post-155627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-crisis","category-human-rights","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-society","tag-air-pollution","tag-airpocalypse","tag-beijing","tag-pollution","tag-public-health","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Concerned About Beijing Smog? 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