How air pollution harms your health - and how to avoid it

It can cause eye irritation, breathing difficulties and heart disease. Here are ways to limit the damageThe European Commission has told the UK to clean up its air. Levels of nitrogen dioxide – which is linked to heart and lung disease and contributes to the early deaths of 40,000 people a year in the UK – are particularly bad. We’re not the only ones with filthy air; the five most-developed countries in the EU (Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK) are all in breach of the