Arsenical air pollution and lung cancer.
Average mortality-rates from lung cancer for White males and females in the U.S.A. 1950-69 WERE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED IN COUNTIES WITH COPPER, LEAD, OR ZINC SMELTING AND REFINING INDUSTRIES, BUT NOT IN COUNTIES WHERE OTHER NON-FERROUS ORES ARE PROCESSED. The excess mortality was not attributed to differences in geographic region, population density, urbanisation, socioeconomic status, or other manufacturing processes. The findings suggest the influence of community air pollution from industrial emissions containing inorganic arsenic.
D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001151:Arsenic / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003300:Copper; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008669:Metallurgy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000401:mortality; D011156:Population Density; D012744:Sex Ratio; D014481:United States; D015032:Zinc
D000393:Air Pollutants; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D007854:Lead; D003300:Copper; D015032:Zinc; D001151:Arsenic