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Air pollution and lung cancer
Air pollution and lung cancer: what more do we need to know?
Health Effects Institute, Charlestown Navy Yard, 120 Second Avenue, Boston, MA 02129, USA; acohen@healtheffects.org
Further work is needed to quantity the effect of outdoor air pollution on lung cancer
Keywords: lung cancer; air pollution
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Lung cancer accounts for 1.2 million deaths yearly worldwide, exceeding mortality from any other cancer in the developed countries.1 The vast majority are caused by tobacco smoking, but environmental causes of cancer, including air pollution, have long been a concern also.2 Outdoor air pollution has received particular attention lately as research has proliferated linking exposure, even at low ambient levels, to a wide range of adverse health effects including increased mortality and morbidity from non-malignant cardiovascular and respiratory disease and lung cancer. In response, international agencies such as the World Health Organization and governments in Europe, the US and Canada have reviewed existing air quality standards and, in many cases, moved to strengthen them. In the developed countries, where air quality has generally improved in recent decades, the scientific basis and public health efficacy of these actions have been questioned by industries whose emissions are
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