POLLUTION in SOME CITIES WORSE than CHENOBYL EXPOSURE!

Study rates risks of city life as greater than radiation and
Passive smoking worse than living in blast zone

Ian Sample, science correspondent
Tuesday April 3, 2007
The Guardian

Air pollution in major cities may be more damaging to health than the radiation exposure suffered by survivors of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, according to a report published today.
The study suggests high levels of urban air pollution cut short life expectancy more than the radiation exposure of emergency workers who were sent into the 19-mile exclusion zone around the site straight after the accident.
Two explosions at the Chernobyl reactor killed three people immediately and more than 30 died from acute radiation poisoning, but the radioactive plume released from the reactor spread over most of Europe and is estimated to have caused up to 16,000 deaths.

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