Downwind

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Downwind refers to a position leeward of another (see Windward and leeward). Leeward is mostly used as a nautical term.

On land, "Downwind" is often used to refer to a situation where the atmosphere is influenced negatively by a point source of air pollution or a harmless but unpleasant smell.

"Downwind" has specific connotations in industrial cities in the English North, where less desirable or expensive housing was often situated to the leeward of steelworks, blast furnaces, mills or other sources of intense pollution. Hence in some cities it is used as a generic, slang, perjorative and discriminatory term for less wealthy areas or their inhabitants.