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Air Pollution and Cancer: An Old and New Problem

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Air Pollution and Human Cancer

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The history of mankind can be divided into 3 periods: the period of hunters-gatherers, the period that followed the agricultural revolution and the period that followed industrialisation. In his latest book, McKeown [1] observed that “in the first period there was no effective con-trol either on the environment or on reproduc-tion; in the second period there was some control on the environment but not on repro-duction and in the third period there was fur-ther control on the environment and, for the first time, on reproduction but there was insuf-ficient control on the conditions of life created by industrialisation.”

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Tomatis, L. (1990). Air Pollution and Cancer: An Old and New Problem. In: Tomatis, L. (eds) Air Pollution and Human Cancer. ESO Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75906-2_1

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