This black cloud that looms Cairo, we have now discovered that is made up of agricultural malpractices and dust. However, we are also missing another key component of how the people also add to the air pollution. Smoking. People smoke a lot in Cairo, about 90% of the people do. This leads to them living a short life, the average life expectancy is 60 years old. “It is said that living in Cairo is the equivalent of smoking one pack of cigarettes a day”.
So even after the citizens of Egypt know that their malpractice in agriculture and their smoking adds to the air pollution, why haven’t they taken efforts to reduce it? People end up putting their money on their health bills due to the air intake and the effect on their respiratory and immune system. If people would come together to use their money on resources to better improve a way to decrease the pollution amount they’d ultimately be saving money. At this point they are choosing to pay for their health bills or pay for a solution to help the future of their home.
Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy to say that the money they use on their health will be used on solutions. Many people do not have the advantage of having a living wage in order to be able to help and provide a solution. To learn more about why Egypt continues to burn their farm waste, read here. 
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