Friends of the Earth: All Dutch smoking five cigarettes per day on average ‘note’ – Focus on News

Wednesday 17 August 2016 – 12:02 Update: 18-08-2016 9:17

to calculate Friends of used air quality data of 393 Dutch municipalities. With a scientific calculation of the health effects of breathing in unhealthy air were compared with those of passive smoking. On the basis of this comparison Rotterdam came with meegerookte almost seven cigarettes per day on the first place correctly. Vlieland is the cleanest, as one smokes ‘only’ 2.8 cigarettes with. The entire list of municipalities can be found on the website of Friends of the Earth.

Smoking ban

The second-hand smoke from cigarettes is recently becoming rarer by banning smoking in public places. Health does not matter whether you inhale or meerookt polluted air. Lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, lower birth weight and reduced lung function in children occur in both cases. Bram van Cavaliere Friends of the Earth: “The passive smoking is now more caused by cars, intensive farming and coal-fired plants than from cigarettes.”

Indicted

This week Friends of the Earth sued the state to the law to enforce healthy air. “While relatively simple measures can be taken to improve air quality have been taken precisely measures in recent years only worsen things,” says Bram van Cavaliere, referring for example to increase the speed limit on motorways to 130 kilometers per hour.

Invoice

Friends of the Earth used for comparison between air pollution and passive smoking a scientific calculation method developed by scientists at the GGD Amsterdam, the RIVM and Utrecht University. Data on local air quality come from the RIVM.