'Like smoking cigarettes all day': Chicago chokes in wildfire smoke-heavy air

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is creating dangerously poor air quality in major US cities including Chicago and New York—conditions so thick that residents describe them as being "like smoking cigarettes all day." Per France 24, approximately five point nine million acres have burned during this wildfire season in Canada. Officials on both sides of the border are urging people to stay indoors when possible and wear masks to protect themselves from the harmful smoke.

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