• zout@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    To the point that it compares with asbestos, radiation and tobacco.

    This is kind of ambiguous; it’s in the IARC group 1, which indeed includes asbestos and radiation. It also includes a lot of other things, like therapeutical hormones, many viruses and bacteria, being a firefighter, leather dust, being a painter, processed meat, wood dust, plutonium, vinyl chloride and outdoor air pollution.

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      7 hours ago

      Seems like the grouping is pretty non-specific.
      Outdoor air pollution can include many different things. It can be an area where people are smoking for hours or roads of the times before catalytic converters.