First published at 03:26 UTC on May 3rd, 2018.
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http://berkeleyearth.org/air-pollution-and-cigarette-equivalence/
Air Pollution Location Equivalent in cigarettes
per day
US, average 0.4
EU, average 1.6
China, average 2.4
Beijing, average 4.0
Handan, average 5.5
Beijing, bad day 25.0
Harbin, very bad day 45.0
Shenyang, worst recorded 63.0
Calculation
We start with some numbers estimated by the US Center for Disease Control: 480,000 people die in the US every year due to smoking.2 The number of cigarettes sold in the US has been dropping, from 470 billion per year in 1998, to 280 billion per year in 2013. For the purpose of our rough estimate, we will take an average number of 350 billion; it is easy to adjust the numbers using different values.
Now we combine these numbers. The ratio of deaths per year, to cigarettes per year, is 0.00000137, expressed in scientific notation as 1.37 x10-6. Put another way, there are 1.37 deaths every year for every million cigarettes smoked. We note that this figure agrees with the value of 1.4 published by Bernard Cohen in 1991.3
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