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<p>The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified outdoor air pollution
and particulate matter in outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans. This can
be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://monographs.iarc.fr/iarc-monographs-on-the-evaluation-of-carcinogenic-risks-to-humans-7/"
target="_blank">https://monographs.iarc.fr/iarc-monographs-on-the-evaluation-of-carcinogenic-risks-to-humans-7/</a></p><p>Estimates
in a recent paper on lung cancer in non-smoking people in the Journal of the Royal
Society of Medicine co-authored by Public Health England show that nearly 6,000 never-smokers
die of lung cancer in United Kingdom every year and that approximately 8% of these
deaths may be attributable to outdoor air pollution. This can be viewed at the following
link:</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-018-0029-6" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-018-0029-6</a></p>
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