Air pollution kills nearly as many people as smoking in Britain each year, new figures have shown.
Although it was previously thought that emissions were responsible for around 40,000 deaths in the UK, new figures suggest it is closer to 64,000, just 18 per cent less than the 78,000 deaths caused by tobacco.
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