Question

How does pollution affect our health?

Answer 1

The health effects of air pollution are serious – one third of deaths from stroke, lung cancer and heart disease are due to air pollution. ... Microscopic pollutants in the air can slip past our body's defences, penetrating deep into our respiratory and circulatory system, damaging our lungs, heart and brain

Air Pollution Effects. We release a variety of chemicals into the atmosphere when we burn the fossil fuels we use every day. We breathe air to live and what we breathe has a direct impact on our health. Breathing polluted air puts you at a higher risk for asthma and other respiratory diseases.