"Smoking is avoidable but air pollution is not." Air pollution was thought to have caused 64,000 deaths in the UK in 2015, including 17,000 fatal cases of heart and artery disease. More than 29,000 other British deaths linked to air pollution were due to a range of conditions such as cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease. During the same year an estimated 81,000 people were killed by air pollution in Italy, 67,000 in France and 58,000 in Poland. (Image: Photographer's Choice)Worldwide, air pollution was found to account for 120 extra deaths per 100,000 people per year.

Source: Daily Mirror March 12, 2019 09:56 UTC