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Another health clearance for the diesel

31st March 1967, Page 20
31st March 1967
Page 20
Page 20, 31st March 1967 — Another health clearance for the diesel
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"I'M delighted to say that all the researches all over the world have shown that diesel smoke is entirely innocent of causing any cancer at all", said Dr. Patrick Lorver, director of the Medical Research Council's units at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on BBC's "Tomorrow's World" programme.

He exonerated the petrol engine, too, saying that although low concentrations of carbon monoxide from petrol engine exhausts might impair brain performance and thus driving ability, there was no evidence of a link with cancer.

Cigarette smoking was, said Dr. Lorver, the main cause of the present rise in lung cancer.