Southern California Deemed Most Polluted

May 1, 2007 NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Los Angeles can continue being the butt of smog jokes now that it has once again topped the American Lung Association's bad air list of most polluted cities in America.

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