7 Tips to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality For A Healthy Lifestyle

Did you know that your indoor air quality could be much worse than the air quality outside your house? Indoor air is often more polluted than the ambient air due to various reasons and breathing in this polluted indoor air can cause severe health hazards. Especially if you have children, elderly or someone with a pre existing respiratory disease living in your home and is breathing the polluted air. This is because these group of individuals are more sensitive to the harmful hazards of poor indoor air quality.

We often consider the need to reduce the pollution and improve the air quality outdoor but it is equally important to improve the indoor air quality. And there are a variety of approaches that can be used to accomplish this goal-

1. Cut out cigarette smoke- Cigarette smoke not only affects the person smoking the cigarette but also everyone around them. You might already be aware of the hazards of smoking but passive smoking also has its numerous side effects. If you cannot quit smoking altogether, the least you could do is to do it outside. Smoking inside the house should be strictly discouraged as it pollutes the air inside the house and reduces the air quality.

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