Air Pollution Free Combustion Method

Air pollution and lung cancer: diesel exhaust, coal combustion.

In 1946, when the causes of lung cancer were much less well understood than they are now, a meeting was held by the British Medical Research Council to review hypotheses to explain the remarkable increase in the death rates from lung cancer and to determine strategy. Stocks came away from the meeting to study the community aspects of air pollution, which he did by extending his series of correl...

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Multiple Threats to Child Health from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change

BACKGROUND Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on climate change. Yet developing children, and especially poor children, now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate change due to fossil fuel combustion. OBJECTIVE This ...

Effect of indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on prevalence of asthma in the elderly.

In this study I examined the effect of cooking smoke on the reported prevalence of asthma among elderly men and women greater than or equal to 60 years old). The analysis is based on 38,595 elderly persons included in India's second National Family Health Survey conducted in 1998-1999. Effects of exposure to cooking smoke, ascertained by type of fuel used for cooking (biomass fuels, cleaner fue...

Relationship of household air pollution from solid fuel combustion with tuberculosis?