Air Pollution Kills More than Cigarettes

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Ririe Ranggasari

Editor

Petir Garda Bhwana

Selasa, 16 April 2019 10:25 WIB

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Air pollution apparently causes more deaths than smoking, a recent study says. Münzel et al from the Medical Centre Mainz University in Germany, said that air pollution caused almost twice the number of deaths than what researchers had thought.

Read also: Easing Congestion to Reduce Air Pollution in Jakarta

The study stated that smoking is avoidable, while air pollution is not.

The report, published in the European Heart Journal, found that 8.8 million people died because of air pollution in 2015, while smoking killed 7.2 million.

Source: STATISTA.COM, MUNZEL ET AL (2019)

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