Is your Summer City break as bad as smoking?

At this time of year we tend to all make plans for travel no matter if its summer or Winter we all have cities around the World that make their way to the top of Our Bucket List.

Mine is Reykjavik in Iceland to do a tour of the Northern lights and the blue Lagoon.

I’m sure like most people you may have many European Cities on your list to be ticked off. A our Summers seem to be getting hotter and hotter is it better I ask to wait for a winter City break for Air Pollution?

I was borne and raised in London and The East End is a very polluted place where more and more children are developing asthma and other lung conditions due to the amount of polluted air we are taking in. When the weather  is hot it becomes more intense.

Brussels- based NGO Transport & Environment ranked the 10 most popular tourist cities in Europe and found that the air pollution in many is poor enough to turn city dwellers into smokers. A four- day stay in Istanbul carries the same health risks as puffing on four cigarettes; that figure is three cigarettes for a mini break in London or Milan.

this means I have been smoking up to 6 cigarettes per week for all of my childhood with the first 10 years of that crucial for good lung development not to mention the secondary smoke round my Nan’s house. scary when you think about it isn’t it.

Air pollution is now credited for shortening 400,000 Europeans lives annually its clear something needs to be done about our Cities air pollution.

is banning Diesel cars or having no car zones enough?

so here is the top 10 Cities to avoid if you want to be a non smoker so to speak.

The below is based on a 4 day trip

Istanbul 4 cigarettes

Prague 4 cigerettes

London 3 cigerettes

Milan 3 cigerettes

Amsterdam 2 cigarettes

Paris 2 cigarettes

Rome 2 cigarettes

Vienna 2 cigarettes

Dublin 1 cigarette

Barcelona 1 cigarette

From Air to Smoke

The idea for polluted air to cigarette equivalent comes from researchers at Berkeley Earth and Scientific research, they crunched the numbers and then cross referenced the data on smoke related lung cancer deaths with the number of cigarettes sold in The US finding that 1.37 people die annually per million cigarettes smoked.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

 

 

 


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