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Researchers at University of B.C. have published an editorial in the Monday’s issue of Canadian Medical Association Journal, alleging that chronic exposure to air pollution is now causing almost nine times as many premature deaths in Canada as traffic accidents. The editorial quoted that an estimate of 21,000 Canadians die prematurely from adverse effects of ever increasing air pollution each year, in comparison to only 2,400 deaths caused by vehicle crashes.
The editorial summarizes the latest peer-reviewed research on traffic-related air pollution, its health impacts and mitigation strategies. The editorial was published only a week after World Health Organization declaration stated that air pollution is a carcinogen. It alleged that though so far only diesel fumes were deemed cancer-causing, but now entire air pollution as a whole is classified as carcinogenic. Head of research, Michael Brauer, and his coresearchers, Conor Reynolds and Perry Hystad, have argued in the editorial that an ever increasing accumulation of evidence is now indicating towards negative health effects from traffic-related air pollution.
It was advised that government has several actions that can lead to its controlled emission, including copying European cities that levy fees on cars in congested areas to reduce traffic. A professor in UBC’s school of population and public health, Brauer, has spent years doing research on traffic-related air pollution and its effect on human health, majority of which was supported by grants from Health Canada. He concluded that air pollution is mainly associated with asthma, other lung conditions and cardiovascular diseases.
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