WHO's cancer agency: Diesel fumes cause cancer

June 12, 2012, 12:58 pm by Associated Press Healthwire

LONDON (AP) -- Diesel exhaust causes cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency declared Tuesday, a ruling it said could make exhaust as important a public health threat as secondhand smoke....

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