Before you choke down another lungful of particulate-smattered air, let’s run through the facts: 1) You can’t bring yourself to drop thousands of kuai on an air purifier, and 2) even if you could, you wouldn’t want to lug one of those gigantors home with you when you finally left Beijing. Masks are a cheaper, much more portable way to protect ourselves from Beijing’s “fog,” whether you bike, walk, bus or subway to work and play.
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