Air pollution causes seven million deaths in 2012

WHO : Air pollution causes seven million deaths in 2012
Approximately seven million people have died as a result of air pollution , a report by the World Health Organisation said . Analysis of dirty air is not only related to lung disease , but also for heart disease and bladder cancer .

Health agencies of the United Nations raising a previous estimate of deaths caused by air pollution in a report released on Tuesday . According to the World Health Organization ( WHO ) one of the eight deaths were caused by the toxic air in 2012 .
Risk from air pollution is now much larger than previously thought or understood , especially for heart disease and stroke
Heart disease , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , stroke , acute respiratory infections , lung cancer and bladder cancer related deaths are the most common air pollutants , according to the WHO report .
The authors define as air pollution both indoors and outdoors . Women and children in developing countries have the greatest exposure to indoor pollution caused by stoves rely on wood, coal or biomass for fuel . Analysis of approximately 4.3 million deaths attributed toxic air inside and slightly less - 3.7 million - outside inhaled carcinogens . Because of overlap in the figures , the authors report lower the overall number of deaths of seven million .
This new figure is double that of previous estimates , partly because of better information about the health affects of pollution and improved detection methods .
The evidence indicates the need for collective action to clean up the air we breathe all