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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 10:17 am
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Originally Posted by susiesan
Sounds like the same air quality I experienced during my 4 days in Beijing, Oct. 8-12, while visiting. By the end of the day my eyes were stinging. It led to a cold/allergy that I had for the next week. I spent most of the vacation on drugs-pseudoephedrine and sinus meds. Once we left Beijing the air quality in the other cities was fine.
It's worse, believe it or not. At least it was still a normal grey smog - I recall a trip to Beijing about 7-8yrs ago where the colour of the smog looked a sickly dull yellow. Yuck.
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