AQI to Cigarette Calculator
Convert AQI to cigarettes by entering your city’s air quality index value. Check now!
Are you curious to know how many cigarettes you are smoking just by breathing your city air? Here we are given an AQI to cigarette calculator, it can show how much air is polluted compared with a cigarette. So our tools help you to understand how much air is polluted and remind how it affects your health.
If you don't know your city's air quality index value, please go to search your city's AQI value and enter a value here.
What is AQI to Cigaratte?
The Air Quality Index is a commonly used global measure of air pollution. It indicates how polluted the air is in your area. To make this easier to understand, you can compare it to a cigarette to see how polluted the air is in your area.
That's why this tool was created, so you can understand how polluted the air is in your area.
How Does the AQI to Cigarette Calculator Work?
- AQI (Air Quality Index) represents pollution levels, mainly based on PM2.5
- So using this formula to convert an aqi to cigarette:
- Equivalent Cigarettes per Day =(PM2.5 concentration × hours of exposure) ÷ 22
- We are using the same equation as an airnow.gov calculator.
Why Compare AQI to Cigarettes?
Many people don't understand this Air Quality Index value, so they can easily understand how much air pollution there is when compared to cigarettes.
Our tool helps you to understand the seriousness of air pollution by converting air quality into cigarette equivalents.
AQI to Cigarette Equivalent Table
| AQI | Cigarette Equivalent / Day |
|---|---|
| 50 AQI | 2.27 cigarettes/day |
| 100 AQI | 4.55 cigarettes/day |
| 150 AQI | 6.82 cigarettes/day |
| 200 AQI | 9.09 cigarettes/day |
| 250 AQI | 11.36 cigarettes/day |
| 300 AQI | 13.64 cigarettes/day |
| 350 AQI | 15.91 cigarettes/day |
| 400 AQI | 18.18 cigarettes/day |
| 450 AQI | 20.45 cigarettes/day |
| 500 AQI | 22.73 cigarettes/day |
Conclusion
An AQI to cigarette calculator is one of the helpful health tools. It helps to understand how air is polluted; it doesn't mean you smoke exact cigarettes. It's just for awareness and to create consciousness of our environment.
So you can share this tool with those who live in polluted cities and who are not concerned about the environment. If you bookmark our tool for further use. Thank you!