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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @08:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 14 2018, @08:01AM (#721275)

    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.