Since 2009, there has been a program called the Blue Zones Project. It works by implementing top-down environmental changes in communities. The first community that signed up saw a 35% drop in smoking between 2010 and 2016. But if you can't get to a Blue Zone community or don't have the ability to turn your community into one, 96-year-old Paul DiMazzo has his own tip.
Particulate matter is shortening lives and hobbling economies in the region. We ask how policy changes and international collaboration could mitigate the suffering as the pollution spreads. Our correspondent meets with two Russian men who, fearing being drafted, made a hair-raising journey by dinghy from their homeland’s far east. And why Seventh Day Adventists seem to live longer lives.
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