Air pollution causes ‘excess deaths’ in the sense that people die of air pollution related diseases at some rate instead of dying of something else, generally a

Air pollution causes ‘excess deaths’ in the sense that people die of air pollution related diseases at some rate instead of dying of something else, generally a short time later. There’s a very different risk assessment between long term choices that have a remote effect on the likely ultimate cause of your inevitable death, versus the probability of premature death through a sudden violent traumatic event.