How Much Worse is a Roomful of Smokers Than Beijing's Bad Air? Check this WHO Graphic to See

Margaux Schreurs | Apr 27, 2015 1:45 pm | Add a comment | 6656 reads

In Beijing we love to whinge when the air gets bad -- and we all collectively freak when the AQI goes up over a couple hundred.

Well the World Health Organization's got news for you: as few as three people smoking inside a restaurant is a lot worse.

Using data culled from the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau and a study of second-hand smoke, the WHO have put together an awesome graphic (see below or download super-hi-res version here) that clearly shows that the AQI readings in indoor areas where people are smoking are much worse than a typical Beijing airpocalypse day.

The WHO has thrown its full support behind Beijing's ambitious plan to completely eradicate smoking in public areas by June 1.

If a picture speaks a thousand words, WHO's graphics (check in out below) speaks about 6,000 on why you should support a complete indoor smoking ban in Beijing: