“Air pollution in major cities is potentially more damaging to health than being exposed to the radioactive fallout of an atomic bomb … urban air pollution cut life expectancy by more than the radiation exposure of emergency workers sent into the 19-mile exclusion zone around the Chernobyl disaster … moving from Inverness to London could have a worse effect on your health than moving to Chernobyl.”

The Independent on a new study published today, here.

Posted Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
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