Coal Smoke Abatement Society

Smog would come to define the essence of Los Angeles, but the city was a latecomer to it. The word was coined in London at the end of the nineteenth century to describe the mixture of coal smoke and fog that had plagued that city for centuries. It first gained wide circulation in 1905 when Henry des Voeux, an officer of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society, began to use it at scientific meetings.2... 

Voeux, Harold (Henry) Antoine des (no birth/death data are available) French physician living in London, honourable treasurer of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society (formed in 1882) and later President of the National Smoke Abatement Society (Marsh 1947). 

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