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Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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275 points rntn | 3 comments | 07 Sep 25 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.402s | source
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Havoc ◴[07 Sep 25 14:00 UTC] No.45158214[source]▶
Only so much you can do about ambient pollution in your city.

Looking carefully at your cooking situation is worthwhile though. Was horrified by the spike in readings from stuff like steak in a pan

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ajkjk ◴[07 Sep 25 14:02 UTC] No.45158232[source]▶
Well studies like this are often directed at policymakers, who actually can do something about it.
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1. lazide ◴[07 Sep 25 14:45 UTC] No.45158618[source]▶
Policy makers generally only give a damn if someone else makes them - or they get something from it.
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2. tim333 ◴[07 Sep 25 14:57 UTC] No.45158734[source]▶
They can do the old fashioned make things better to make the voters happy and get reelected. In London the mayor has brought in a lot of anti pollution measures and although the tabloids and right wing media go on about how awful he is, he gets reelected, including my voting.

This thing says roadside ppm2.5 is down from 17 to 8 in central where I live https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/07/london-a...

3. ajkjk ◴[08 Sep 25 20:18 UTC] No.45173409[source]▶
That's the cynical take, but as far as I can tell it is far from universally true. You just hear about all the bad cases. Not to mention, the the way it pulls on policy can be much more subtle than getting bills passed.