RESULTS of a recent study carried out by Friends of the Earth reported in your paper showed that air pollution in Watford routinely breaches safe limits.

More concerning was the fact that the monitoring was done in the vicinity of areas with a high footfall of people such as Farraline Road which serves as a corridor for staff venturing from the Watford High Street Station to Watford General Hospital.

And yet the tests showed the levels of pollution along this road are lethal.

A group of public health experts has called for all petrol and diesel pumps to be labelled with a health warning - in the same way as cigarettes - to warn the public of the serious and damaging costs of the fossil fuel they are buying..

Scientists have called for images of blackened lungs to be displayed on fuel pumps as a warning about the effects of using the fuels, such as pollution and climate change. Such labels are already in use on fuel pumps in other countries.

Smoking in public places is no longer considered to be the norm, but a damaging habit that harms not only the individual but those around them through passive smoking.

Petrol and diesel fumes also harm others through air pollution and account for 3.5million premature deaths every year.

It's time the public knew the true price of the petrol or diesel at the garage and how when measured against the costs to health and climate change, it doesn't stack up.

Dave Degen

Whippendell Road, Watford