Another bad air warning

 Euronews reports:

Nearly all of the world’s population are breathing polluted air, knocking more than two years off of average global life expectancy.

According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest findings, 99 per cent of people live in areas where air pollution exceeds safe levels.

The contamination chops an average 2.2 years off global average life expectancy for each person - a combined 17 billion life years.

This impact on life expectancy is comparable to that of smoking, more than three times that of alcohol use and unsafe water, six times that of HIV/AIDS, and 89 times that of conflict and terrorism.

There is even a suggestion that the menstrual cycle could be drawn out by PM10 in polluted air.