If an average adult spent an 8-hour work shift outdoors in Bushwick, Brooklyn on June 7, the peak period when the skies turned orange, then they were exposed to the equivalent of smoking 30 cigarettes.
by researchers at the University of California Berkeley that equates levels of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns to cigarette smoking. It estimated that one cigarette is equivalent to an air pollution of 22 micrograms of particulate matter for every cubic meter volume of air. AndTo calculate inhalation around NYC, Gothamist took the math one step further accounting forbreathes in every hour.
Baseball fans who attended the June 6 game breathed in air over the course of nine innings that was equal to smoking about five cigarettes. “This is three to four times higher than the World Health Organization guidelines and EPA national ambient air quality standards,” said, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. “It doesn’t mean going below those standards, you're safe – there is no safe level of pollution.”
The Yankee game scheduled for the next day was canceled due to worsening air quality. A laborer working outside near Yankee Stadium on June 7 would have inhaled the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes over the course of a standard eight-hour shift. Such exposure worsens symptoms for respiratory diseases, such as asthma, and cardiovascular conditions such as heart disease according to Kioumourtzoglou. NYC hospitals
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