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The air pollution from factory smokestacks, vehicles, cigarette smoke, and other sources have been linked by experts to diseases including lung cancer. These experts believe there is a direct link between the higher risks of lung cancer with increased exposure to fine particles found in air pollution. Most of us know that smoking cigarettes is one of the main causes of lung cancer. But less known is that breathing heavily polluted air long-term can raise the risk of lung cancer as much as breathing second-hand smoke.
In a recent study, the largest impact of air pollution causing lung cancer was with[...]