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Study Finds High Lung Cancer Rates in Saint John – Occupation and Air Pollution Are Risk Factors

Posted by tracy on June 2nd, 2009

“Individual lifestyles choices are often incorrectly blamed for high community cancer rates. Health officials still can’t accept that occupational and environmental exposure to industrial pollutants are major causes of cancer, not only for workers directly exposed but those living in communities beyond the factory gates,” said Inka Milewski, the Conservation Council’s Health Watch Director.

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