of the store did even the study we conducted on behalf of germany's environment ministry calculated that this pollution is linked to some six thousand deaths per year in germany or the loss of fifty thousand years of life in terms of the population as a whole the focal. of these ostensible nitrogen dioxide victims are the green lobbies sharpest weapon in the fight against diesel vehicles they put listen to a campaign from environmental action germany cites even higher figures from the european environment agency. does nitrogen dioxide really cause thousands of deaths if that were the case surely many people would die each year in stuttgart the city lies in a valley basin and the limits for n o two and fine particulate matter are regularly