From Lambeth Palace. Archbishop Justin Welby preached at Canterbury Cathedral during a service of 'thanksgiving and repentance' for the first black Anglican Bishop, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who was consecrated 150 years ago.
Children, senior citizens, and people with heart and lung conditions are especially vulnerable, but smog can impact even those of us in good health. Symptoms during high air pollution days range from eye and nose irritation that can amplify allergy and respiratory infection, to increased cardiac and respiratory deaths.
Chemical fumes and vapors can also irritate the eyes. Burns to the eyelid or eye can cause eye problems. Blasts of hot air or steam can burn the face and eyes. Bursts of flames or flash fires from stoves or explosives can also burn the face and eyes. If you have burns to your eyelids, see the topic Burns.