40.Polluted place

Describe a place you've visited that has been affected by air pollution

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what kinds of air pollution you saw there and explain how this place was affect

Nowadays we don't need to go far to find vivid examples of polluted places because pollution is a modern plague both indoors and outdoors. Frankly speaking, I had thought I was living in a very polluted city until I went on a business trip to a large industrial one called City. I went there by car. At some point of my journey, I noticed a dark cloud in a distance. The closer I got, the larger the cloud grew. Soon I realised that it was a thick blanket of smog hanging over the city. What I saw when I arrived was beyond the limits of my imagination. I was even afraid to leave my car. The whole city was shrouded in smog. Just imagine, it was so thick that I could hardly see my feet as I walked through it. I doubt that people living there were lucky to see the sun every day. Wherever I looked, I saw dark circles of smoke exuding from pipes. Needless to say, there weren't many trees there. Those which I could notice were covered with a thick layer of particulate matter. This means they must have stopped producing oxygen a long time ago. The entire city turned into a biologically dead zone. The river which passes through the city was only used for dumping toxic waste from plants and factories. Swimming there was definitely out of question. it's perfectly natural that it was really_difficult for me to breathe. Several hours after I arrived I started coughing nonstop. I still can't imagine how people could live there for long periods of time. If I lived there, I would suffer from asthma or lung cancer. I mean, I would definitely have some kind of respiratory disease. Fortunately, I had to spend just one day there and couldn't wait to get in my car and drive home,