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Comment by brnt

1 day ago

Fine particulates don't 'bother' you until you have that lung cancer diagnosis.

> Fine particulates don't 'bother' you until you have that lung cancer diagnosis.

Care to point out a source that supports a hypothetical link between rubber wheels and lung cancer?

  • Hypothetical you ask for?

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1757501/

    To preempt accusations that the automotive endproduct isn't represented by this study, I'll concede it's next to impossible to have conclusive studies on specific forms of road pollution, that is, the best one can do is find a link between (rail)cars and cancer but nothing more specific than that :)

    --Until they replace rubber in wheels with something else, I guess. Meanwhile, feel free to accept the reindustrialization