NIJMEGEN – Air pollution in the Netherlands on health the same effect as passive smoking more than five cigarettes a day. Gelderland is precisely the country’s average: we smoke with 5.3 cigarettes daily.
In the provinces of North Brabant and Utrecht lies on 5.7 cigarettes per day.
Meerookhoofdstad
This Milieudefensie calculated based on the number of cars, intensive farming and coal-fired plants in various provinces and municipalities. Passive smoking capital of the country is Rotterdam 6.8 cigarettes per day. South Holland is also the most polluted province, accounting for 6.1 meegerookte cigarettes a day.
North
For the lungs, it is better to live in the northern provinces. Residents of Drenthe, Groningen and Friesland example breathe less than four cigarettes to air pollution.
Lung diseases
The calculation is based on the effects on health. These include air pollution, and second-hand smoke in a manner similar increase the risk of lung disease, heart and vascular diseases and lower birth weight. Which published environmental scientists from the University of Utrecht earlier this year in a study of air pollution and public health.
Friends of the Earth asked the list together by linking this study with data from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).
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