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Premature Deaths Attributed To Smog

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Linda LaSut
18 November 2004 - 12:00pm

Ground-level ozone, a common form of air pollution long linked to breathing problems, is being blamed for thousands of premature deaths each year in a new study of 95 urban areas.

In the urban areas studied, when ozone levels rose by 10 parts per billion during a given week, people were about 0.5 percent more likely to die. That would correspond to about 3,800 additional deaths nationally each year.

Full Story: Air pollution's threat proving worse than believed
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 17, 2004
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