Others just keep downvoting this comment, I'll offer a counterpoint instead. I live in a city with air pollution levels that are considered extreme by Western

Others just keep downvoting this comment, I'll offer a counterpoint instead. I live in a city with air pollution levels that are considered extreme by Western standards (which I've checked and compared multiple times). Frequent SO₂ spikes up to 10 milligrams/m³ (and sometimes even more); NO₂ at 150-200 µg/m³ or higher; yearly PM2.5 averages of 200+ µg/m³, and so on. Respiratory illness rates are 4× compared to national average. Life expectancy is lower by about 5-8 years. If you look at this page, in most the world CVD beats cancers by about 2:1. Over here the ratio is much closer to 1:1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat... Everyone knows that air pollution is to blame, including the government, but they have shinier things to spend money on.