What's fascinating about this isn't the study itself - it's the reactions people here are having. From "I guess that means fruit juice should be illegal since it can contain alcohol!" to "Life leads to death too!". Just any justification to call the WHO's point bunk. Denial, in a word. This is the world's leading body on science health giving a result that I'm guessing most of us don't want to hear. Because we like a…
I think it's more like: yeah, we know, but people are able of being responsible too.
So don't assume that living a week more in a lifetime should be a goal, I assume these studies are published to get some funding for the team who publish them, not because they are useful for the public debate.
Because they are not.
Alcohol is much less dangerous than the car tyres, moderate alcohol consumption is also associated in many studies to health benefits, just like drugs are not good for your health but without them the chances of dying of common disease increase two fold, so they're not as bad as they look.
Maybe people should care about important stuff, not the sensationalistic stuff.
Meanwhile:
The car tyre particles pollute air, water and soil and contain a wide range of toxic organic compounds, including known carcinogens, the analysts say, suggesting tyre pollution could rapidly become a major issue for regulators. Air pollution causes millions of early deaths a year globally