A new study concludes that air pollution caused by traffic increases the risk of contracting lung cancer.
10 per cent of the people taking part in the study who lived in the areas of highest air pollution had a 45 per cent higher risk of contracting lung cancer than the other half involved in the study – people living in the areas of lowest air pollution. The National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) at Aarhus University produced the model on which the study was based, and was also responsible for doing the sums. The study involved researchers from the Danish Cancer Society, the University of Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital and (representing Aarhus University) NERI and the School of Public Health.