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Breath easy: The Puget Sound area comes in at number 8 for cities with clean-air. (MyNorthwest.com Photo/File)

Seattle-area No. 8 on clean-air cities list

November 16, 2012 @ 8:09 am (Updated: 10:43 am - 11/16/12 )

In some cities, you can breathe a little easier.

The maker of Honeywell air purifiers recently ranked the top cities with the best air quality, based on pollen counts, ozone concentrations, public smoking laws, green initiatives, and other factors.

Here are the top 10 cities with the cleanest air:

1. Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Fla.
2. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla.
3. North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Fla.
4. Honolulu
5. Tucson, Ariz.
6. Colorado Springs, Colo.
7. Albuquerque, N.M.
8. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash.
9. Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, S.C.
10. Lakeland-Winter Haven, Fla.

One of the places with the worst air quality? New York City. According to the Daily News, residents of New York City are breathing in pollen, bacteria, clothing fibers, fungus, tire rubber, dead skin cells, cooking fat, and carbon emissions.

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  • xplanes wrote...
    Great news
    November 16, 2012 12:06 pm
    Does that mean we can stop with the burn bans during the coldest two weeks of the year? Prolly not.
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  • deltta wrote...
    Now I don't feel so bad about burning tires today
    November 17, 2012 4:03 pm
    ........
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  • dori monson fan wrote...
    until dec.6
    November 17, 2012 4:01 pm
    when we drop to 420th on the list in a skunky fog.
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