Sources: Seven of the world’s most toxic air pollutants

Mercury

https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/340715/9789240023567-eng.pdf?sequence=1

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Siti-Zulaikhah-3/publication/343290707_Mercury_and_its_effect_on_human_health_a_review_of_the_literature/links/5f219716299bf134048fc781/Mercury-and-its-effect-on-human-health-a-review-of-the-literature.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23391-7

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0890623818302442

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/ijch.v75.33805#d1e306

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0041008X13005644

Alkylated lead

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/135015

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20877807/

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1031429212/the-world-has-finally-stopped-using-leaded-gasoline-algeria-used-the-last-stockp

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887899420302782

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6522252/

Dioxins and furans

https://www.pops.int/TheConvention/ThePOPs/The12InitialPOPs/tabid/296/Default.aspx

https://www.pops.int/TheConvention/ThePOPs/AllPOPs/tabid/2509/Default.aspx

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651324015392

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/ay/d4ay01767f/unauth

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10962247.2015.1058869#d1e142

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.10399

PCBs

https://www.iarc.who.int/news-events/iarc-monographs-volume-107-polychlorinated-biphenyls-and-polybrominated-biphenyls/

https://www.pops.int/TheConvention/ThePOPs/AllPOPs/tabid/2509/Default.aspx

https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6304/10/7/365

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653524021398

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-018-2625-7

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13903#

Polycyclic organic matter

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-09/documents/polycyclic-organic-matter.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023001186

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006295223003921

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749124006559

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9498904/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33672189/

Hexachlorobenzene

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119301884

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935119301938

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-50996-4_7

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18078005/#