US EditionThousands of deaths in 2025 will be linked to air pollution, report warns
- A recent report by leading doctors projects that toxic air will be a contributing factor in approximately 30,000 fatalities in the UK during 2025.
- Extensive research over many years has demonstrated that air pollution harms almost all organs in the body, contributing to long-term health problems and early death.
- The report estimates that air pollution results in £27 billion annually in healthcare expenses and reduced productivity, with the total economic burden potentially increasing to £50 billion when additional effects, such as dementia, are included.
- Dr Mumtaz Patel, leading the Royal College of Physicians, emphasized that air pollution must be recognized not merely as an environmental concern but as a critical issue affecting public health.
- Doctors, nurses, patients, and activists plan to deliver a letter to the government calling for ambitious air quality targets and legislative action, including a bill named after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah to make clean air a human right.
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Doctors say tens of thousands of deaths in 2025 will be linked to air pollution.
Doctors say tens of thousands of deaths in 2025 will be linked to air pollution. Air pollution negatively affects almost every organ in the body and around 30,000 UK deaths will be linked to toxic air in 2025, according to a new report from leading doctors.
Thousands of deaths in 2025 will be linked to air pollution, report warns
Around 30,000 deaths will be linked to toxic air in the UK in 2025, according to a report from leading doctors, as they urged the government to "recognise air pollution as a key public health issue".
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