The exhaust of diesel engines provokes the development of cancer
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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The World Health Organization has concluded that the exhaust of diesel engines provokes the development of lung cancer and bladder cancer.
Experts who participated in the WHO conference in Lyon, France, during the week studied the latest research of scientists from around the world, where the relationship between the inhalation of diesel fumes and the development of cancer was monitored.
Having conferred, the commission came to the conclusion that it is necessary to raise the level of danger of diesel exhaust for a person from "in all probability is a carcinogen" to "uniquely a carcinogen."
According to scientists, despite the fact that the likelihood of developing cancer due to inhalation of diesel fumes is quite low, this phenomenon should be treated as passive smoking, since all people inhale diesel exhaust in one way or another.
The greatest risk of falling sick are truck drivers, mechanics of car repair shops and workers of factories of heavy industry. To a lesser extent, but at the same time, pedestrians, passengers of steamboats and owners of private vehicles working on diesel fuel are at risk.