Breathing Kills

Cigarettes I will be expected to have smoked today because of breathing the bad air in Delhi, India:
hours.

You can adjust the exposure time by moving the slider: .

Assuming smoking one cigarette shortens a life with 11 minutes [source], one could say that today my life was shortened with ...loading minutes.

The current PM2.5 concentration in Delhi is ...loading µg/m3 (last updated on ) [source: OpenWeatherMap].

The conversion to cigarettes is based on today's average PM2.5 concentration in Delhi so far, which is ...loading µg/m3. According to research, 24 hours exposure to PM2.5 22 µg/m3 is equivalent to smoking one cigarette [source].

The last 7 days' average PM2.5 concentration in Delhi was ...loading µg/m3.

Taking the same daily exposure time, this means that in the last 7 days, I am supposed to have smoked in total ...loading cigarettes. This is supposed to have shortened my life with ...loading minutes.

This website is inspired by other tools that help calculate how many cigarettes you have been smoking today, based on the aqi levels of your location and exposure:

I have the privilege that I can spend most of the days inside, among more airpurifyers than I can keep count of. So I'm probably going to be OK!

But many people, and in Delhi many means really meany, breathe this air 24h a day.