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Polluted air causes 5.5 million deaths a year

13-Feb-2016

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Most of these deaths in rapidly developing economies.

In Beijing or Delhi PM2.5 levels can be 10 times recommended limit.

In the US for every dollar spent on air improvements there is between $4-$30 benefit in reduced health impacts

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Daniel (Dan) S. Greenbaum

President of Health Effects Institute

Michael Brauer

Professor in School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.

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Respiratory Disease