Researchers: Automobile exhaust is more dangerous than radiation

According to the latest studies, such ordinary adverse effects as polluted by emissions and exhaust gases air or smoke from other people's cigarettes are potentially more dangerous to health than contact with radioactive precipitation after a nuclear explosion.

If we take into account that such disasters are rather an exception than the rule, then the undesirable effect of contaminated air or smoking becomes even more obvious.

As notes the British newspaper The Times (the full text on the website inopressa.ru ), moving from the Scottish city of Invernes to the slagged center of London can cause more damage to health than voluntary residence in a polluted forbidden zone around Chernobyl.

As a result of the explosions of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the explosion itself, burns and acute radiation disease, more than 200 thousand people died. At the same time, according to science, a person who continues to smoke until his death, due to this pernicious habit, takes away on average ten years of life. And those who, at the age of 35 years, suffer from overweight can lose from four to ten years. On the contrary, as studies show, the life of the surviving victims of the atomic bombardment, which has undergone severe irradiation within a radius of 1.5 kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion, is reduced by an average of only 2.6 years.

A single percent increase in mortality as a result of radiation irradiation is equivalent to the risk of getting an incurable form of cancer in adulthood, which is 1: 100. Meanwhile, if you live under the same roof with a smoker, then the danger of dying from cardiovascular diseases caused by passive smoking increases, according to scientists, by 1.7%. And the adverse effects of contaminated air in the center of London compared with Invernes will increase the risk of death by 2.8%.