Lower Air Pollution Means Longer Life

thefickler writes "A new study by the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has found a strong link between air quality and life expectancy. The researchers looked at air pollution, deaths and census data for 51 metropolitan areas between 1978 and 2001, and what they found was a direct correlation between improving air quality and extending life expectancy. People lived about 2.72 years longer over that time span and at least 15 percent of that increased life expectancy was from a decrease in air pollution."

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Great, the dumbest people will live the longest...

[tjstork]

That's great. Let's clean up our cities, presently, crime ridden cesspools filled with the bulk of America's poor, and have them all draining welfare for even longer than they do. So, air quality helps these people live 2 years longer? Why not weigh that against the stress of being poor, which causes people to live decades less. Build some fricking factories there, for christ sake...