Paris: Everyone is familiar with air pollution. The 'epidemic' of air pollution around the world reduces the average life by about 3 years. For this reason, 8.8 million people die prematurely every year. This information was given by scientists on Tuesday. The Journal of Cardiovascular Research reports that burning oil, gas and coal can extend life expectancy by one year by eliminating toxic cocktails of molecules and particles that accumulate in the lungs.
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Lead author Jose Llewild of the Max Planck Institute in Germany has reported that air pollution is a greater public health risk than tobacco smoke. This can be avoided to a great extent by using clean renewable energy instead of fossil fuels. Comparing other causes of premature death, air pollution kills 19 times more people than malaria every year, nine times more than HIV / AIDS and three times more lives than alcohol.
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On this matter, senior writer Thomas Munzel of the Department of Chemistry and Cardiology of Max Planck Institute has said that our results suggest that air pollution is an epidemic. Both air pollution and smoking can be prevented, but in the past decades, less attention has been paid to air pollution than smoking. The region most affected by air pollution is Asia, where it reduces the average life span by 4.1 years in China, 3.9 years in India and 3.8 years in Pakistan. In some parts of these countries, poisonous air is responsible for an even higher number of deaths.
