Here’s How Air Pollution Is Costing You 1.5 Years of Your Life

For the study, the researchers looked at outdoor air pollution from particulate matter (PM) smaller than 2.5 microns

If air pollution were removed as a risk for death, people in the world could live at least a year longer and in India, which is battling a severe air pollution, the benefit would be even more - about 1.5 years, says a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.

“Here, we were able to systematically identify how air pollution also substantially shortens lives around the world,” said lead researcher Joshua Apte from The University of Texas at Austin in the US.