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Not Your Shaq’s Diesel: Who Says Diesel Exhaust Causes Lung Cancer? WHO does. (That’s who).

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Maybe it’s the great win last night by OKC that has me framing this issue with a reference to the Big Aristotle, or maybe it’s the fact that I can never hear the word “diesel” without thinking of Shaquille O’Neal.  No matter.

The real story is that after 20 years of being fairly certain that diesel fumes might cause cancer, the World Health Organization has now classified the fuel’s exhaust as an outright carcinogen.

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About Christopher Cocca

Christopher Cocca is a Pennsylvania-based writer and community organizer. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Brevity, elimae, Pindeldyboz, Geez Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Generate, and elsewhere. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 2005 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (fiction) from The New School in 2011. He helps lead the Air Quality Partnership of Lehigh Valley - Berks and is the Associate for Urban Mission at FPC Allentown. Opinions expressed on-line are solely his. Quotation does not equal endorsement, except for when it does.

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One Response to “Not Your Shaq’s Diesel: Who Says Diesel Exhaust Causes Lung Cancer? WHO does. (That’s who).”

  1. This is a little something for you.I’m in a hurry!He can’t take a joke.Could I have those two tickets, please? This is only the first half.He was married to a friend of mine.He was married to a friend of mine.Do me a favor? Feel better? There is a chair below the window.

    Posted by moncleroutlet2012.moonfruit.com | November 17, 2012, 2:28 am
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