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Article: Age and smoking-adjusted lung cancer incidence in a Utah county with a steel mill.
- Article from:
- Archives of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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Whether particulate air pollution causes lung cancer is an unresolved scientific question, but the answer is important because air pollution is a daily fact of life for people who live in industrialized cities everywhere. Community air pollution has long been known to be associated with nonmalignant respiratory death[1,2]; however, epidemiologic studies investigating the association between air pollution and lung cancer rates have shown that the amount of lung cancer that can be attributed to community air pollution is anywhere from 0% to 100%.[3-8] Recent reports have suggested that uncontrolled confounding is responsible for this variability.[9,10] A World Health ...