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Hydrogen Inhalation Therapy for City Dwellers

The air we breathe is laced with cancer-causing substances and should now be classified
as carcinogenic to humans, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) is now declaring. It
really does matter where you live and where a person treats their cancer. One does not
want to be anywhere near a city like this when battling their cancer.

The WHO this month classified outdoor air pollution as a leading cause of cancer in
humans. "The air we breathe has become polluted with a mixture of cancer-causing
substances," said Kurt Straif of the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC).

"We now know that outdoor air pollution is not only a major risk to health in general, but
also a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths." Although the composition of air
pollution and levels of exposure can vary dramatically between locations, the agency said
its conclusions applied to all regions of the globe.

Air pollution was already known to increase the risk of respiratory and heart diseases.
The most recent data, from 2010, showed that 223,000 lung cancer deaths worldwide
were the result of air pollution, the agency said. Cancer is rising alarmingly around the
world and yet not any of the money that governments have thrown into the war on cancer
is stopping the accelerating cancer epidemic. One of the reasons why is that air pollution
is getting worse and negative health effects are accumulative.

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