Pollution link to 30,000 deaths a year

AIR pollution negatively affects almost every organ in the body and around 30,000 UK deaths will be linked to toxic air in 2025, according to a new report from leading doctors.

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The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said that there is “no safe level” of air pollutants as it warned around 99% of the UK population are breathing in “toxic air”.

Exposure to air pollution can shorten people’s lives by 1.8 years, which is “just behind some of the leading causes of death and disease worldwide” including cancer and smoking, the authors wrote.