Research: 11 Thousand People Die Each Year Due to Pollution

NEW YORK - A recent journal of Environmental Health Perspectives revealed research findings that pollution resulting from diesel engines cause the death of 11 thousand people a year in the United States and the United Kingdom .

Research from Emory University 's claimed as many as six percent of people who suffer from lung cancer caused by inhaling the exhaust fumes of diesel engined vehicles . The Journal report also said that six percent of people with lung cancer are mentioned , approximately 4.8 percent died from it.

The researchers suggests some sort of truck vehicles and heavy vehicles into the cause of the biggest mining projects diesel emissions . Due to the heavy equipment mining become one of the leading diesel emissions , the workers also confirmed to have lung cancer . Of the 10 thousand mine workers , approximately 689 of whom suffered from lung cancer .

However , residents who live in urban and industrial areas have ten times greater likelihood to suffer lung cancer than the miners . " Based on the assumption of existing journals , approximately six percent of the causes of death due to lung cancer caused by pollution diesel engines , " according to the report as quoted from Softpedia , Friday ( 11/29/2013 ) .

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