title: [Role of general air pollution in the etiology of lung cancer].
abstract: In a short review the relations known between general air pollution and the occurrence of lung cancer are analyzed. There is a great number of circumstances arousing suspicion of a causal connection, nevertheless, they do not prove anything. In no case general air pollution is responsible for more than 20% of all cases of lung cancer, and even this seems probably to be too high an estimation.
mesh_terms: D000397:Air Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D012906:Smoke / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D012906:Smoke
vernacular_title: Die Rolle der allgemeinen Luftverunreinigung für die Atiologie des Lungenkrebses.