No Link Between Fumes and Cancer
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AN M.P. last week suggested in the Commons that it was more than coincidence that pollution from petrol and diesel fumes had increased dramatically in the past few years in urban areas, and lung cancer figures for the same areas had done the same.
It was important to undertake as intensive an inquiry into this as the medical profession undertook into the dangers of cigarette smoking, added the M.P., Mr. Dudley Smith.
There was no evidence to suggest that petrol engine exhaust, fumes were an important cause of lung cancer, whether primary or not, replied Sir Edward Boyle, Minister of State for Education and Science, although he noted that they were more hazardous than diesel in the sense that they contained carbon monoxide, which was a toxic gas.
But research on the possible effect on health of these and other types of exhaust products continued to be undertaken by the Medical Research Council as part of its programme of work on air pollution.