HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Carcinogen
26 Jan 2016
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Mixture of particles that seems to have particularly damaging effects on human health. Location varies in traffic pollution. (talking about where people live and how this affects them) Air pollution is considered the most important environmental carcinogen (more important than second hand smoke) Not only a problem in poor countries. Increased disease mortality if living close to a road. Liquid and solid particles in the air! um is 1/1000000 m. Spend a lot of time indoors (80% of our time) Using coal, animal dung, charcoal in open fires or poorly functioning stoves.
