text: To continue, the author, Robert Duffer, of "Paris bans driving due to smog", he states "after days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city."(para. 10) this tells us that cars are dameging the air we breath. Smog gets around fast,"Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France,after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world."(para 14)