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Air pollution causes 3,800 premature deaths

This content was published on Sep 28, 1999 The government says that stricter legislation has succeeded in significantly reducing air pollution in Switzerland, but that greater efforts are needed to avoid the deaths of 3,800 people who die each year from respiratory diseases. Anti-pollution legislation introduced in 1983 is now showing results in a number of sectors, the government said in a report…