Thursday June 14 2012 "Diesel exhaust fumes cause cancer":
official WHO report The Daily Mail reports a World Health
Organization (WHO) warning that diesel exhaust fumes are a
“major cancer risk” and belong in the “same deadly category as
asbestos, arsenic and mustard gas”. Meanwhile the BBC says that
diesel fumes are “definitely a cause of lung cancer”. This
widely reported news is based on a decision by the WHO to
classify diesel exhausts as a cause of cancer. The decision was
taken by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC), a panel of experts that co-ordinates and conducts
research into the causes of cancer, and develops cancer control
strategies. Under its classification scheme, diesel exhaust was
previously categorised as “probably carcinogenic”. The agency
now says there is now sufficient evidence that exposure to
diesel fumes causes lung cancer. It is calling for exposure to
diesel fumes to be reduced worldwide. While diesel fumes are now
officially carcinogenic, the alarmist tone