The awareness of the fact that extreme smog is not cool is growing, but still a large group of people (perhaps even a majority) accept it as a fact of life. In

The awareness of the fact that extreme smog is not cool is growing, but still a large group of people (perhaps even a majority) accept it as a fact of life. In the eighties, it was so much worse here (there were heavy industrial plants - steel mills etc., without any pollution filtering, running at full steam in city centers of Zabrze, Katowice, Bytom etc.), that those who rememeber it perhaps still see current situation as a massive improvement.