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Air pollution contributes to lung cancer, In 2013, the WHO classified outdoor air

asthma, and other respiratory diseases, pollution in cities as being as

and it has been associated with heart carcinogenic to humans as smoking was
disease and stroke. All of these can be in February 1985.

fatal.

Respiratory ailments are sky rocketing in Bangalore which was once boasted the Garden City tag

In the United States, exposure to by road traffic accidents. Research led

particulate matter in the air is the eighth by Dr. Prashant Kumar, from the

leading cause of death each year. In University of Surrey, U.K., has shown that
London in the United Kingdom, deaths 25 percent of exposure to harmful

related to air pollution are estimated to particles when driving occurs in the 2

be 10 times higher than fatalities caused

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