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The report also points to more disability-adjusted life years (DALY) lost due to respiratory infections triggered by air pollution than tobacco consumption. “Air pollution is a great leveller. “This is the worst-ever December as far as the city’s air quality goes. On the first day of 2019, the AQI at the air quality monitoring station at Rabindra Bharati University, BT Road, hovered around 500 between midnight and 2am. “A cohesive action from key stakeholders is needed to battle Kolkata’s declining air quality..