\u201cBut, dude, I\u2019m a non-smoker!\u201d \u2013 If that\u2019s what crossed your mind and you brushed aside the very question surmising that it\u2019s not relevant for you to pay heed, then, allow me to burst your bubble because it doesn\u2019t matter whether you smoke or not, you are anyway going to inhale toxins and chemicals provided you stay in Delhi and courtesy to the air that you\u2019re breathing which is filled with high levels of PM pollutants.<\/p>\n
And a shout-out to all the chain-smokers \u2013 No hard feelings but what has been wrong with you, people, that you\u2019re squandering your hard-earned bucks in purchasing those fags when Delhi air is doing the work for you, that too for free, just on the cost of your health.<\/p>\n
Do you know that you\u2019re passively smoking around 20 cigarettes per day in Delhi? All you have to do is just breath. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a recent report revealed that Delhi is the most polluted metro city in the world. With PM2.5 concentrations being 143, you\u2019re having a puff almost every hour while being either indoors or outdoors.<\/p>\n
Emissions of motor vehicles, dust from construction sites, smoke from garbage fires, burning crops, fire on agricultural lands; all these factors have conspicuously contributed towards the drastic upsurge of bad air quality.<\/p>\n
With 1.5 million people dying every year in India, we have the highest mortality rate caused due to chronic respiratory ailments. Poor air quality has irrevocably damaged the lungs of 2.2 million people living in Delhi.<\/p>\n
If these alarming data do not concern or compel you to take any appropriate action against this grave menace, then I wonder, what under the sun would! Otherwise, not far would be that day, when Delhi would be introduced as the \u201cGas Chamber City\u201d across the world, instead of the capital of India.<\/p>\n
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