Cleaner air adds months to Americans' life expectancy

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 17:21 in Health & Medicine

Reduced air pollution in 51 U.S. cities over a two-decade period ending in 2000 added an average of five months to the life expectancy of residents, according to researchers at Brigham Young University and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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