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Drivers Risk Cancer, Lung Disease [Kolkata ]
It's a familiar sight on Kolkata streets: the auto driver revving the engine and thick, black smoke billowing out of the exhaust pipe. Every time you inhale it, your nose burns and you break out into a fit of coughing that only subsides when you breathe in clean air.
That's what the fumes of kaata tel the deadly but cheap cocktail of kerosene, naphtha and petrol that most autos run on can do to you. Doctors say that years of exposure to the fumes leave the lungs, larynx and central nervous system very vulnerable. In a couple of years, one out of every four Kolkatans may suffer from lung cancer, warn experts. And there's eve...See the full content of this document
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