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

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2018-08-12 07:51:37 from the and-if-you-thought-the-people-were-stinky dept.
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http://www.france24.com/en/20180810-year-paris-bad-health-smoking-183-cigarettes [france24.com]

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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