• Air pollution kills more people than AIDS and malaria together.
  • Breathing polluted air shortens your life by 1-2 years.
  • One person breathes in approximately 7.5 liters of air per minute, meaning approximately 12.870 liters per day.
  • Pollutants released in the air are more harmful that those in the soil or water.
  • People living in high traffic areas face a greater risk of cancer, cardiac problems, asthma, bronchitis, because these areas are much more polluted.
  • Electric vehicles pollute by lifting the dust, but they do not produce any exhaust emissions.
  • Even dolphins are affected by air pollution caused by smog. They get the Black Lung disease.
  • The best ways to reduce the impact we have on air are walking and bike riding.
  • Pollution in closed environments, such as homes, is 2 to 5 times worse than outdoor air pollution.
  • The high level of polluted air in Beijing created the conditions for the emergence of a new disease, the Beijing cough.
  • An aluminum box, filled with clean air, costs 60 eurocents and it is sold on the streets of pollution-suffocated Beijing.