Depending upon age and level of health, the average person takes between 17,000 and 23,000 breaths a day.   Essential to life, the air we breathe should not make us sick.

Under most circumstances, polluted air is invisible due to the microscopic size of airborne contaminants.  Yet these invisible poisons in our air kill 6.5 million people a year.   This is more deaths due to breathing than from AIDS, auto accidents, cholera, malaria, pneumonia, and war combined.

According to the World Health Organization, 92% of the world’s population breathes polluted air.  There are 1.2 billion cars on the road today.

 Is it a surprise that the most prevalent type of cancer in the world is lung cancer?

NYC’s anti-idling law has been on the books since 1971.  What is it going to take for people to make a difference? 
— Peter Terezakis

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