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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

Outdoor air pollution I believe- also looking at indoor air would be useful

Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

#CleanTheair

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How does outdoor air pollution affect my indoor air quality?

Outdoor air pollution is awful for the world at large. But did you know it can also affect the air you breathe indoors? Learn more here.

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

Because we spend most of our time indoors, the majority of outdoor air pollution exposure can actually happen indoors. Climate change Ambient air quality and indoor air quality are linked.
Addressing all spaces where we breathe, is urgently needed to improve our health.
#CleanTheAir
@airclub.org

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

They should, however, come as a wake-up call to policy makers, whose inadequate efforts to tackle air pollution are costing lives - a toll we are now able to quantify."

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#Cleantheair

Landmark study estimates over 130 lung cancer cases in NI attributable to air pollution each year

Air pollution is estimated to cause more than 130 lung cancer cases annually in Northern Ireland, according to a landmark new study published in the prestigious British Journal of Cancer.

www.qub.ac.uk

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Dan Middleton, senior author of the study and Lecturer and Cancer Epidemiologist from the Centre for Public Health adds: "Outdoor air pollution has been classified as a Group 1 human carcinogen since 2013, so these findings come as no surprise.

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

Every lung cancer case linked to air pollution represents suffering that could have been avoided if we act decisively to reduce exposure."

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

Mrs Rawan Alhattab, lead author and PhD
Student from the Centre for Public Health at Queen's University Belfast says: "These findings remind us that air pollution is not just an environmental issue—it is a clear and preventable threat to public health.

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Northern Ireland, with over 1,300 new diagnoses every year. While smoking remains the largest risk factor, this study underscores that air pollution is an urgent and preventable cause of the disease, - both should be tackled

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

On a population scale, exposure above the WHO's former guideline of 10 ug/m3 - still regularly exceeded in many areas - accounts for 10% of lung cancers in Northern Ireland.

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

The study estimates that:
People in the most polluted areas have a 37% higher risk of lung cancer than those in the least polluted areas. The excess risk is especially marked in women, who show a 79% higher risk at the highest exposure levels compared to women in the lowest.

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 1d

New Landmark study estimates over 130 lung cancer cases in NI attributable to air pollution each year

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lung cancer burden attributable to ambient particulate matter: a nationally representative population-based case-control study - British Journal of Cancer

British Journal of Cancer - Lung cancer burden attributable to ambient particulate matter: a nationally representative population-based case-control study

www.nature.com

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 2d

What we can do
1. Monitor Indoor air quality.
2. Fit mechanical ventilation systems.
3. Use portable Air Purifiers
4. Reduce polluting building materials
5. Advocate for standards and regulations and enact implementation measures.

This is a screenshot of the solutions to poor air quality and indoor environments that are occupied for children

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 2d

Children’s lungs are smaller still developing they breath more rapidly and greater volume compared to body size.
Indoor air pollution can lead to
1. Poorer birth outcomes
2. Developmental impacts.
3. Endocrine disruption

developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/ha...

At a Glance: Air Quality and Early Childhood Development - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Learn key science takeaways and find actionable solutions to improve indoor air quality and support children’s health and well-being.

developingchild.harvard.edu

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 2d

What we Know
We spend > 90% of time indoors more for newborn and in utero

Air pollution
Can be 2-5 higher indoors

PM VOC’s PFAS can all build up in poorly ventilated tightly sealed buildings

Polluted air from outside can leak into buildings too

This is a screenshot from Harvard explaining how air quality impacts early childhood development

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 4d

www.calrest.org/sites/main/f...

acp.copernicus.org/articles/24/...

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 4d

Changes in your home can include
•changing from a gas to an induction hob •turning on the extractor fan to high when you’re cooking •opening the windows •swapping aerosols and cleaning sprays for natural products
•retrofitting or placing in new homes hvac or MHRV Systems

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 4d

The ingenious study in Bradford aims to understand how activities in our home can increase indoor air pollutants and affect human health conditions such as asthma would you be interested in participating in such a study? Comment +Let us know

ingenious.york.ac.uk/home

INGENIOUS

Do you know what harmful airborne pollutants are found in your home? Many of the activities we do in our own homes produce airborne pollutants, including particles and chemicals that can be harmful to...

ingenious.york.ac.uk

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 4d

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the levels of indoor air pollutants can be two to five times higher than outdoors

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The surprising dangers of cooking and cleaning

Experts say most of our exposure to air pollution could occur indoors. What are the most effective ways to reduce indoor pollutants?

www.bbc.com

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 4d

We should focus on source removal of pollutants indoors.

Regulation and standards for indoor air quality can guide us such as HSA code of practice for Indoor air quality

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK385...

Exposure Data

‘Cooking fumes’ or ‘cooking oil fumes’ is the term commonly used to describe the visible emissions generated during cooking by frying with oil. However, these emissions are not technically ‘fumes’. In...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, studies show that frying a burger indoors can release as much, or even more, particulate matter (PM) than a car exhaust especially without proper ventilation.

Steaming <Boiling<grilling<frying

most of our exposure to air pollution actually happens indoors.

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 4d

How bad is your burger?Did you know-Household frying (and fossil fuel burning) are contributors to household indoor pollutants.

Releasing large amounts of PM2.5 and ultra fine particles, formaldehydes voc , PAH’s +aromatic amines
Similar compounds are found in car exhaust fumes

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 5d

Preventing Covid can prevent long Covid and Cardiac long Covid.

Clean air strategies are essential user independent public health promoting scalable risk reduction measures.

#Cleantheair
@IrishTimes
@irishexaminer
@Independent_ie

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 5d

5% of those post SARS COV-2 infection can develop cardiac long Covid

Cardiovascular symptoms include chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, arrhythmias, and OI.

Consensus statement by the European association of preventive cardiology

academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

Cardiovascular disease prevention and management in COVID-19: a clinical consensus statement of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology, the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, t...

Abstract. The coronavirus-associated disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed significant challenges due to the complex interplay between SARS-CoV-2 infe

academic.oup.com

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 6d

The global commission on Health indoor Air is working towards individualised national blueprints for healthy indoor air strategy implementation

Healthy indoor air standards monitoring + solutions are urgently needed as we spend more and more time indoors

resources.wellcertified.com/press-releas...

resources.wellcertified.com

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Clean Air Advocacy Ireland @cleanairie.bsky.social · 7d

#Budget
#Cleantheair
#cleanairclub
#healthyindoorair
#Globalcall2action
@cleanairkids
@SafeAirSchoolUK
@NPCpp
@TUIunion
@INMO_IRL
@IMO_IRL