Pomona College is not in Pomona, and the smog is non-existent almost everyday. The rare days when the mountains are blocked, the air quality doesn’t feel any different. We have kids from all over the world and I haven’t heard a single complaint about air quality in my years here. Don’t talk about things you don’t know about. Claremont is very much so a college town:
http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article4033433.html
"Visitors cannot help but notice the stark difference between Claremont and surrounding areas straddling the border between Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. If you mistakenly turn south when exiting Interstate 10 at Indian Hill Road, you hit a prime example of urban blight, also known as Pomona, replete with pay-day loan storefronts, fast-food joints, liquor stores and walk-in clinics.
Make that U-turn and head back north under the freeway and, in a “Wizard of Oz”-like moment, the scenery abruptly changes and teems with verdancy. A granite sign in a wide, grassy median welcomes you to Claremont Village, and those live oaks and sycamores cast a lovely, sedative, sun-dappled tinge for the mile-long drive to the retail hub"