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    Opinion: Governments should fight air pollution from fossil fuels like they fight tobacco use

    Burning fossil fuels kills as many people each year as tobacco use, but it doesn't get the same kind of attention. It's time to change that.
    by Lourdes Sanchez and Nina Renshaw Oct 01, 2019 2 minutes
    Source: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    Imagine driving into a gas station to fill up your car’s gas tank and seeing this stark notice affixed to the pump: “Warning: Burning fossil fuels kills.”

    Tobacco packages all over the world display warnings like that. It makes sense, since tobacco kills as many as around the globe. Burning fossil fuel doesn’t get the same kind of attention, even though the toxic air pollution.

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