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.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday August 13 2018, @04:35PM (2 children)
Maybe you are out of your mind. For all the things the US does badly, we are pretty good with tap water quality in most places. Other countries really aren't. Not everything in Europe is better than in America. There's no way I'd assume the water quality in any other country, except maybe Japan, is up to US par, without doing some research on it. Even here in the US, the tap water frequently doesn't taste very good and I wouldn't use it without some kind of filter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @08:01AM
When I was in St. Petersberg, water came out of the faucets with literal chunks with what looked like green fuzzy things on them. In no small quantity. People lived their entire lives without drinking straight water. It was always boiled to be turned into tea for consumption.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @03:03PM
According to this page, [tripsavvy.com] tap water is safe to drink in France (and in fact, in most but not all European countries).