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Thousands of deaths in 2025 will be linked to air pollution, report warns
UNITED KINGDOM, JUN 19 – Doctors warn air pollution shortens life expectancy by 1.8 years and disproportionately affects disadvantaged communities, costing the UK £27 billion annually in healthcare and productivity losses.
- The Royal College of Physicians has highlighted that almost the entire UK population is exposed to harmful air pollution, which is expected to contribute to about 30,000 deaths in 2025.
- This warning is based on findings that exposure to any amount of air pollution carries health risks, contributing to ongoing chronic illnesses and early deaths across all age groups.
- More than 100 doctors, nurses, patients, and campaigners will assemble at Great Ormond Street Hospital before walking to Downing Street to hand over a letter calling on the Government to adopt strong and progressive air quality standards.
- Dr Mumtaz Patel emphasized that air pollution should now be recognized not merely as an environmental concern but as a serious public health emergency, with associated healthcare expenses and productivity losses costing £27 billion annually.
- The report and medical experts emphasize the need for urgent government action, linking clean air to basic human rights and warning that progress requires practical changes in heating, transport, and industry.
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Doctors say tens of thousands of deaths in 2025 will be linked to air pollution.
Doctors say tens of thousands of deaths in 2025 will be linked to air pollution. Air pollution negatively affects almost every organ in the body and around 30,000 UK deaths will be linked to toxic air in 2025, according to a new report from leading doctors.
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