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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @07:01PM
These stats arent at all comparable. The percent of people who die directly due to smoking cigarettes (eg take a puff and choke on the smoke) is near zero.
Just wait until "long term health effects of terrorism" becomes one of those issues pushed by academia. They will find a way to link all sorts of deaths to terrorism, the same as they have to the current boogeyman of cigarettes. The only thing stopping this is that apparently no one is interested in funding it right now.
Do people who watch a lot of "terrorism" documentaries/news have heart attacks more often at younger ages than those that don't? I bet they do...