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LONG TERM EXPOSURE to even low levels of air pollution increases the risk of lung cancer, according to a new Europe-wide study of over 300 thousand people published this morning in medical journal The Lancet Oncology.
Data from nine countries – from Britain to Greece – was analysed as part of the research, which assessed the impact of long-term exposure to pollution from sources like traffic fumes, industry and domestic heating.
Researchers estimated the concentration of pollution at the homes of those taking part, and then applied models to separate the influence of pollutants from other factors like smoking, diet and occupation. Over 2,000 people developed lung cancer during 13 years of follow up study.
The analysis found that for every rise of five micrograms per cubic metre in smaller air particles, the risk of lung cancer rose by 18 per cent, with the risk rising again in relation to higher pollution levels.
“At this stage, we might have to add air pollution, even at current concentrations, to the list of causes of lung cancer and recognise that air pollution has large effects on public health,” researcher Takashi Yorifuji of Okayama University in Japan warned. According to the authors:
The association between particulate matter air pollution and the risk for lung cancer persisted also at concentrations below the existing European Union air quality limit values.
The study’s authors said there was “no threshold below which there was no risk”, with the results showing a picture that “the more the worse, the less the better”.
Active smoking remains the main cause of lung cancer, with exposure to residential radon, and second-hand tobacco smoke also well established risk factors.
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Plane landed at shannon on way to somewhere else. Wow!!! Good story.
Irish government complicit in abductions and torture.
Story.
So what now? Do we have to stop all planes from landing in case they might some time in the future be used for an illegal act?
i think linking this with Shannon is a bit of a stretch
Complicit. No. Friendly to America yes and rightly so.
if they’re repeatedly used for kidnapping people, yes, if an agency such as cia has such policy you don’t let their planes and give them army and police protection
The British Government have just agreed to pay out £2.2 million pounds http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20715507
for the illegal kidnap and torture of Sami al-Saadi in Lybia. While the plane landing in Shannon in transit might not be a major story, the question that has to be asked is what or more importantly who was on the return journey? Dermot Aherne might be happy when Condaleza Rice said “oh we wouldn’t impinge on your sovereignty” but the simple fact of the matter is that there is a huge amount of evidence pointing to the fact that Shannon was used as a stopping off point for planes involved in the transport of people who were kidnapped, interned and tortured. The Irish Government turned a blind eye to this and as such are accessories to these illegal acts.
These flights should have been searched each time they landed but they weren’t. If and Irish citizen was kidnapped by a foreign State and transited through the US or the UK with their knowledge either direct or indirectly how would people feel then?
They are terrorists. They shouldn’t have any human rights.
A huge story – turning a blind eye while the USA illegally abducted people and took them to lovely holiday spots like Guantanamo Bay… we have to keep those all important US high tech companies here after all, that’s the most important thing… We never exercised our rights to search US military planes landing at Shannon, even though everybody knew what was going on. Absolutely shameful.
Torpedo how about looking at the link I posted before you come out with stupid statements like that.
@brian do you think terrorists, who murder innocent people deserve the right to be treated humanly.
Simple answer torpedo, yes.
Who? The abductees or the abductors?
@torpedo – everyone deserves to be treated humanely. There’s a reason it’s called “human rights”.
Ronan should you not be commenting on a soccer story . Liverpool blah blah blah ball round kick net red shorts blah blah grass green white line lager kebab blah blah blah soccer yeah .
@Torpedo The whole point of *human* rights is that they are for all humans. Terrorists, rapists, murderers, every human being should have certain rights. They are universal and that’s the most important concept of them.
If you think “they stopped being human when they decided to “, then you’re confusing “human” with “humane”.
I think it’s a sad day that Ireland turns a blind eye to the torture of any human being. It’s an outrage when Syria tortures humans, but the message is that it’s fine when America does it.
Funny how this is being done and people are not happy with it.
How about looking in your own back yard, before you go knocking on your neighbors door.
There are people being held in prisons in our own country with out convictions made against them.
Hey Torpedo, I just rang the “see something say something” DHS hotline and reported you as a terrorist. I asked if they needed any proof. They said they don’t need that anymore, because when they rendition you they will water board it out of you. Enjoy. Its great living in a democracy isn’t it?..
Hey Ed you believe what you want and I’ll believe what I want. But I know I will sleep fine knowing that terrorist are being hunted down. I only wish I could do something to help.
But you ARE doing something to help, torpor.
No doubt a few years ago you would have been cheering smugly when the law-abiding Orange gentry and their Force Resource Unit(or whichever flag of convenience MI6 were flyng that week) were taking out terrorists like Pat Finucane.
Did you do a jig when the terrorist navy with the Mavi Marmara was gunned down?When the Dublin terror nest was bombed in ’74?
Keep playing with your joystick while you drone on.
Retard
Good old neutral Ireland. Is there anything good about this country anymore?
time to manufacture a nuke…
Haha..If we set off a nuke we’d only shoot ourselves in the foot!
The Crustys will go daft!!
The Powers that be will try to divert the thread onto insulting the few with gumption to stand against this shit.
The Crustys??
‘ The powers that be’ Liberal leftie pinko lingo also spoken by Crusties
Indeed Ted…you have to look at the positives in a story like this….I am sure the crew bought plenty of duty free, sank a few well deserved pints in the Burren Bar, fuel for the the aircraft…a few well needed euros for the local economy.
Liberal leftie pinko….didn’t you leave out terrorist?
But then, fascistic uber-right blueshites are always terrified by democratic rationality.
It triggers their reactionary knee-jerkoff motor neuron, the only solitary one they possess.
Ryanair don’t do trans Atlantic flights, but if they did……….
Think your mixing that up with Carlsberg .!!!
mmmmmm Carlsberg.
F ing tree hungers the country has more important things to worry about than a empty plane landed at Shannon on its way to Macedonia.
The U S of A, the keepers of democracy and justice in the world.
LOL.
Says the man b Lowe who stands behind Assad of Syria!!!
a couple of USAF gulfstream jets land at Shannon each week. probably carrying army top brass to and from Afghanistan but could be anyone. Their flight plan can’t be tracked.
Successive governments knew everything that happened in this Country but chose to turn blind eyes to those happenings, apart from rendition, Irish governments knew that;
The British bombed Sackville place on the eve of a Dail vote on Section 30 offenses against the state act, murdering two CIE workers in the process and injuring 70 and successfully changing the outcome of the vote.
The British bombed Dublin & Monaghan.
The British ran amok in Ballymurphy.
The British ran amok in Derry.
The uda and uvf were all but regiments of the British Army.
Douglas Hogg and Margaret Thatcher signed Pat Finucane’s death warrant.
That the Birmingham six, Guildford four, the Mcguire seven and Judith Ward were held as hostages.
My point is that most Civil servants and TD’s are a bunch of yellow b’stard expletives, who are afraid to stand up to the brits and the yanks.
Everyone on here condoning rendition and torture should cast there minuscule memory span back to the Birmingham 6 , and the guildford 4 all beaten and tortured all innocent . Or is it just the Muslims who deserve this type of treatment . You are all pathetic I bet one night in a Garda cell and ye would be crying for your mammies .
Why what’s happens in a Garda cell?
What Carlton the CIA running drugs hardly . Oh wait . Air America fcuk yeah .
Ah hear, the plane refueled in Shannon on route to somewhere else and Ireland is aiding the torture and abduction? Seriously??? If he was on the plane at the time there might be something but this is crazy… If a murderer stops to get petrol on his way to committing a murder, is the owner of the petrol station liable??? No different…
It was well reported in “lefty media” at the time that it was very likely that the US was using Shannon to rendition people to be tortured.
Ireland chose not to search any of the US planes.
I’m sure if they got a tip-off that a flight smuggling cocaine was refuelling here they’d be searching it.
Not at all.
Are you unaware of the CIA’s history with both cocaine and heroin? Do you think the explosion of poppy production since they hit Afghanistan is coincidental?BritUSia has ruled the drug waves since the 19th century Opium Wars pulled their silver out of the Chinese economic fire. Thats why production is escalating in the Burmese sector since the entente broke that logjam. Golden circles and golden triangles all go jingle jangle, all along the banks of the old Panamanian offshore laundries.
http://www.treasureislands.org
another torture victim
Another tortured terrorist.
Your dead right. Doing away with due process and courts of law is the way to go. The future can only be good. Although I believe you murdered somebody yesterday. You don’t mind if we just lock up now for life and skip the whole innocent until proven guilty thing? What ye think? Sure we will label you and terrorist and the thick sh#ts will believe that’s enough proof for them
Not so long back ronan would have been practising his beliefs in Letterfrack or Artane.
They haven’t gone away you know.
what this press release from amnesty doesn’t mention is that in the same round trip from washington dc to afghanistan, another man Binyam Mohamed was also moved from one torture site to another after the plane left Shannon, the CIA kidnapped two people to prison in Afghanistan, was it golfers on the plane? http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/aug/02/guantanamo.humanrights
Paddy will do anything for a few quid and a pat on the head.
when a state or nation fails to operate by its own rule of law it then fails to be a state or nation….Naom Chomsky
He was not charged with any crime and released in 2004 , so no he’s not a terrorist . You idiot .
Abductions and torture are enough; I wouldn’t want to see alcohol in the mix too. If Carlsberg had their way, there’d probably be international underworld orgies held in Clare, and not just the mental stag parties that those planes are bringing in already… :P
Hmmm….?
Are mental stag parties good or bad and are you hoping for international orgies ?
Surely you could pick somewhere, anywhere other than Claire
For County Claire (we’ll call her that) international orgies would be preferable to international war crime involvement. Although if the CIA are holding them they’re probably awful.
I’m only speculating about the stag parties; I guess it’s a bad thing when anywhere with an airport is susceptible to infiltration by drunken gangs of men from across the pond!
On a slightly more hilarious note, when I was about thirteen I was walking through Cork at 12pm on a Sunday afternoon when a man in a stag party came over to hand me a card that simply read “Gam Mongrel” and had a picture of a Screwdriver in the corner. It took me a while to figure that one out.
Damn, that was supposed to be in reply to Pierce2020′s Carlsberg reference. Foiled!
My dear fellow Irishman read the book The Ghost Plane. It will tell you what you want know. It’s all true !!!!!
Thanks Michael I will .
Feck all jimmy they play tiddly winks and snakes and ladders , but I’d say the brave lot on here condoning torture couldn’t even handle that .
In fairness, that snake near the top that drops you back to the start is cruel.
He’s a terrorist , get over it
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