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Fresh air polluted by exhaust fumes and industrial emissions causes lung cancer, a team of The International Agency for Research on Cancer experts has officially declared. Outdoor air pollution was officially classified as carcinogenic(致癌物质) to humans by the cancer arm of the WHO after a review of the latest scientific evidence from around the world.. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also highlighted an apparent link between air pollution and an increased risk of bladder cancer, although the findings were less conclusive. Levels of pollution vary widely between urban and rural areas, but the working group of IARC said their findings could be applied to all regions of the world, and sent a “strong signal” to governments to deal with the problem immediately. Dr Kurt Straif, head of the IARC Monographs Section which identifies environmental causes of cancer, said: “The air we breathe has become polluted with a mixture of cancer-causing substances. “We now know that outdoor air pollution is not only a major risk to health in general, but also a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths.” The latest data suggest that in 2010, air pollution was responsible for the deaths of 223,000 lung cancer patients around the world. Dr Dana Loomis, deputy head of the IARC monographs section, explained: “Our task was to evaluate the air everyone breathes rather than focus on specific air pollutants.” “The results from different studies point in the same direction: the risk of developing lung cancer is significantly increased in people exposed to air pollution.” Although the findings do not come as a surprise, they are likely to significantly increase the pressure on governments around the world to deal with pollution, which has risen rapidly around the world during industrialisation and was already known to raise the risk of conditions like heart and respiratory diseases（呼吸道疾病）. Traffic, power stations, industrial and agricultural emissions, and cooking