Air pollution in Britain causes thousands of deaths every year from conditions including heart disease, lung cancer and strokes Nick Ansell/Press AssociationMore than 16,000 Britons are dying each year as a result of outdoor air pollution, global health leaders have warned. Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed that 16,355 deaths in the UK were linked to so-called ambient air pollution in 2012. Across the world, one out of every nine deaths was the result of air pollution-related conditions in 2012. Of these, about three million were attributable solely to ambient air pollution. In Britain it is estimated that more than 7,300 people died from ischaemic heart disease linked to outdoor air pollution, almost 5,000 from lung cancer and 3,700…

Source: The Times September 27, 2016 00:22 UTC