WHO: Air pollution caused 1 in 8 deaths

More than half of deaths linked to indoor smoke from cook stoves

Air pollution is now the "single largest environmental health risk," the U.N. health agency stated in the report. The majority of the deaths associated with air pollution were heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer.





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