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Global pollution linked to one in six premature death. It’s worse than wars, AIDS and road accidents combined

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ZME Science

Publication Date
2017-10-20

An extensive study carried out by environmental experts found an alarmingly high percentage of all global premature deaths are linked to pollution, specifically airborne pollution. In 2015, nine million premature deaths or roughly 16 percent of all deaths can be attributed to pollution, according to the findings published in The Lancet. That’s one-and-a-half times more than the number of people killed by smoking, three times the number killed by AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined, more than six times the number killed in road accidents, and 15 times the number killed in war or other forms of violence.

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https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/pollution-ecology/pollution-premature-deaths-s0534543/