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Where does air pollution come from?

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233 points kamaraju | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 04:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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johnthesecure ◴[02 Apr 25 05:54 UTC] No.43553996[source]▶
It's interesting to see the number of deaths caused by pollution. But everyone will die of something. Could it be that many of those people whose death was caused by pollution may have been frail and close to death anyway? I wonder if it would be more useful to talk about quality-life-years (QUALYs) lost as a result of pollution. Probably much harder to get that data though.
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1. vasco ◴[02 Apr 25 06:02 UTC] No.43554026[source]▶
Linked from the article this seems interesting: https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

But from my understanding most deaths attributed to pollution, specially indoors, relate to fireplaces, cooking, oil lighting or other "I'm making smoke indoors" activities which will cause lung issues later on. Even having candles on all the time isn't good for you.

The rest as far as I understand is all estimated by putting a finger in the air and subdividing lung cancer deaths into what they feel like the causes were.