From as early as the 1200s,[REF][REF] air pollution became increasingly prevalent, and a predominant perception in the thirteenth century was that sea-coal smoke would affect one's health [REF].
In 1880 Francis Albert Rollo Russell, son of the former Prime Minister Lord John Russell, published a leaflet that blamed home hearth, rather than factory, smoke for damaging the city's important buildings, depriving vegetation of sunlight, and increasing the expense and effort of laundering clothes.