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A 5 page discussion of the connection between air pollution and cancer. The author discusses specific air pollutant components such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and nitrogen oxides in relation to their association with cancer. A brief review of the efforts which have been made to curb air pollution is also included. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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has numerous impacts on human health. In 1996 the Environmental Protection Agency announced that tens of thousands of people are killed each year by air pollution (Merline, 1997).
Other studies are more specific, several estimate that 60,000 die in the United States a year as a result of exposure to air pollution (Moore, 1995). The impacts of
air pollution to human health run the gamut from the obvious respiratory complications, to fetal and infant death, to long-term brain and nerve damage. Another integral connection between air
pollution and human health is cancer. The precise link between air pollution and cancer is, even on first consideration, determined by
the particulate nature of the pollution. The specific nature of air pollution is determined by its source. Some, for example, is linked to automobile exhaust, while other pollution
is linked to factory emissions, the emissions for power generation plants, or even smaller sources such as the wood fires in our homes or even our backyard barbecues.
The particles of concern are extremely small, only 2.5 microns in diameter (Merline, 1997). Exposure to particulate pollution can cause numerous problems including "runny and stuffy noses, sinusitis, sore
throats, wet coughs, head colds, burning eyes, wheezing, dry coughs, phlegm, shortness of breath, lung disease and chest discomfort or pain" (Moore, 1995). One seven-year study of 552,136 adults
in 151 U.S. metropolitans found that those exposed to particulate air pollution were fifteen to seventeen percent more likely to die up to three years earlier than those not exposed
to such levels (Moore, 1995). Furthermore this study reported that particulate exposure accounted for one of every thirty deaths (Moore, 1995). Many of these deaths are attributed to
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