From Beijing to Shanghai, there is a smokey mess hovering over the skyline, and the Chinese are breathing it in and breathing it out.
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Overall, the researchers found, breathing secondhand smoke in private social settings nearly tripled the risk of being diagnosed with sinusitis, while breathing it at work more than doubled the risk.
It came up to him almost every night, in darkness, and he stood there in the freshly fallen snow, with the trees arching in low around him, breathing it in and out.
Exposure to the oil for a prolonged period of time can result in a toxic effect on the skin, and mammals can suffer lung damage or death after breathing it in, Bossart said.
Although still breathing it was with difficulty.
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But she realised it was still breathing and cut it loose with a pocket knife.
The set of people who are most violent about this issue, who are sustaining it, and breathing life into it, are doing so because it is a convenient validation of their beliefs.
If this system can also detect and monitor a sleeping person's breathing, it would have additional utility for eavesdroppers or thieves.
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How do you shoot rockets into the sky without drawing the attention of a regulatory body that would seemingly control breathing if it were, in fact, digitally transmitted?
The idea, as he explained again at a news conference this morning, is to secure the Iraqi capital in order to give the government the breathing room it needs to make difficult political decisions that might give Iraqi insurgents reasons to support the government instead of fighting it.
Tencent's blend of services and the success of its online gaming has given it breathing room during times of sluggish advertising demand, and made it freer to take risks and launch new services.
People with chronic breathing disorders such as asthma use it to make breathing easier.
The RBI consults the government but it has enough breathing-space to set rates as it pleases, they say.
The move gave Citi some breathing room allowing it to focus on recovering profits rather than repaying Uncle Sam.
Now that he's got a little breathing room, it's time for Bill Ford to decide where the company is headed.
Judaism is flourishing, changing, living and breathing here like it never has anywhere since the destruction of the Second Commonwealth.
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But they do give the Scottish Executive breathing space as it formulates an economic policy designed to tackle Scotland's longer-term problems.
The loans being promised to Greece only give Greece a little breathing room so it can, for example, make a bond redemption later this month.
Katherine was a good baby: she cried, but only to let you know she hadn't stopped breathing, and it never bothered us much, and it didn't bother the people downstairs at the Student Prince, either.
In the end, Brady was an accounting trick that gave breathing space and it was possible because of the political and economic strength of the USA in the economy of 1989 (and the non-controversiality of accounting tricks in that just-born global finance system).
While the revealed internals might be disappointments to those who were hoping the PS3's possible sendoff would involve more of a bang than a whimper, they do hint that Sony might have breathing room if it wants to advance the design any further.
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By agreeing to the swap, it will win some breathing-space: the government this week announced it would postpone the caps for a year.
It is a living, breathing organism, like the people who make it up.
It was so premature that its lungs should have been uninflatable, yet it was breathing.
It calculated breathing rate by measuring the amount of carbon dioxide exhaled with each breath.
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When the baby was born, it stopped breathing and everyone started screaming, the source said, citing the girl's account.
Instead of breathing clean air, you're breathing particles that make it harder for your lungs to function and get oxygen.
As for that tax planning feature, the software is still no substitute for a living, breathing tax professional when it comes to sniffing out loopholes.
The immediate calls for his head from the Tories will now die away and he has certainly won himself a breathing space - but it is only that.
Another theory is that smoking may make people anxious because it damages their breathing.
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