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A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes

posted by mrpg on Monday August 13 2018, @09:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-breathe dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A year in Paris is as bad for your health as smoking 183 cigarettes

A study by the European Transport & Environment association published on Friday confirmed that spending a few days in various popular European capitals is equivalent to smoking between one and four cigarettes.

[...] The Transport & Environment study compared the contamination from fine particles of the ten largest European tourist cities by converting it into the number of cigarettes smoked. The NGO used a method of calculation created by Berkeley Earth, an international climate association.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by pe1rxq on Monday August 13 2018, @01:52PM (1 child)

    by pe1rxq (844) on Monday August 13 2018, @01:52PM (#720967) Homepage

    Actually due to the enormous amount of people alive today there is some hope: in the entire existence of the the human race some 100+ billion people have died and some 7+billion are still alive.
    So for a member of the human species there is still a significant chance of living forever.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @02:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @02:52PM (#721386)

    I think I'm one of those who live forever. I mean, there have been more than a billion seconds so far which I've survived, and zero which I didn't survive. So obviously there's an extremely low probability of dying. ;-)