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Acrylamide is currently listed as a probable human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer...
...dangers of secondhand smoke. This becomes more alarming when one realizes that an estimated 53,000 workers die each year from exposure to secondhand smoke. The Boston Public Health Commission should indeed be commended for its efforts in protecting workers and patrons in Boston from this deadly carcinogen...
...know that second-hand smoke is a Class A carcinogen,” said John G. O’Brien ’72, chief executive officer of the Cambridge Health Alliance. “All workers need to be protected from hazardous exposure to second-hand smoke...
...trucks are boring 300-foot holes to trace the plumes of a pollutant that has leaked from the underground tanks of gasoline stations. The culprit: methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), an additive that makes gasoline burn cleaner but one the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified as a potential carcinogen. Half of Santa Monica's water supply is undrinkable--MTBE makes water taste like turpentine--and the city (pop. 85,000) faces a $300 million cleanup that could take as long as 30 years. As lawsuits against 18 oil companies drag on, California has ordered a phaseout of the chemical...
Bush’s professions that he is unconvinced by the evidence are themselves entirely unconvincing. A favorite poison of mystery writers and the Medici, arsenic is also a known carcinogen. According to one study completed in 1999 by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the current maximum arsenic level allowed by law results in a 1-in-1,000 risk to men of developing lung or bladder cancer. Though no recent studies have been conducted on Americans, the evidence from international reports is compelling, and the researchers urged the EPA to reduce...