The group of women all developed a cancer believed to have been caused by
exhaust fumes in what researchers have branded a 'new occupational disease'.
CONGESTION equals pollution and anyone who has to travel on the ring road will soon tell you of the foreign registered lorries that are spewing out
exhaust fumes, and the nightmare inhalation if you are caught behind one.
Levels of NO2 - largely from car
exhaust fumes - peaked at 102 microgrammes per cubic metre of air as 16 UK towns and cities, including Glasgow, exceeded the limit of 40.
German automakers including Volkswagen, Daimler (DDAIF) and BMW (BMWYY) funded the European Research Group on Environments and Health in the Transport Sector, which was dissolved last year, and commissioned tests which were designed to defend diesel following reports that its
exhaust fumes were carcinogenic.
Catalytic converters need heat to help them clean
exhaust fumes, but efficient modern engines don't produce as much of it.
It is common knowledge that the less
exhaust fumes your car produces the better.
However in the last 200 years the human race has increasingly poured into it a variety of gases, including smoke from industry and
exhaust fumes from various forms of transport.
Nitrogen dioxide is mostly found in
exhaust fumes from car engines.
They spend most of the day confined within booths, impacted by
exhaust fumes and particulate matter, thereby running the risk of acquiring lung cancer and other chronic respiratory illnesses," she said.
The agency has received several complaints of
exhaust fumes entering the cabin.
Research in the 1970s by Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel has led to programs that unveil chemical processes such as how
exhaust fumes are purified or how photosynthesis takes place in green leaves, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.