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Series 5: By All means; be sure your breathe is Fresh

How can you control the air you breathe?
Difficult?
Here is why you must be in charge of the air you take in.

About 7million deaths (approx. 11.6% of all global deaths) are associated with indoor and outdoor pollution. The International Agency for Research on Cancer report concludes that outdoor air pollution is Carcinogenic, responsible for the high mortality from lung cancer, respiratory complications, stroke and heart diseases.

These staggering findings cannot be left unaddressed.
Sources of outdoor air pollution tend to be the combustion of fuels for transport, power generating sets or other human activities while indoor air pollution can be cause by a range of activities such as smoking cigarettes (tobacco smoke), cooking or heating with biomass fuels or coal.

A recent World Health Organisation, WHO report on global Pollution index labeled Nigeria’s cities of Onitsha, Kaduna, Umuahia and Aba as among the world’s most polluted cities.

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