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Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers

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142 points gmays | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 18:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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bell-cot ◴[04 Jul 25 19:18 UTC] No.44467129[source]▶
How is this even news? I'd think that century-old health data would make it bleedin' obvious that heavy air pollution increases the incidence of lung cancer.
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01HNNWZ0MV43FF ◴[04 Jul 25 20:28 UTC] No.44467633[source]▶
We are still desperately trying to convince 30% of voting adults in the US that pollution is bad
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1. seattle_spring ◴[04 Jul 25 20:59 UTC] No.44467843[source]▶
Some of them literally think destroying the planet is a good thing because it'll prompt the rapture.