Everyone knows that smoking can increase your chances of getting lung cancer because it’s been drilled into us since birth. In fact, for me, the association between smoking and lung cancer is so strong that I always wondered how people who had never smoked a day in their lives ended up dying from the disease. Well, scientists seem to have unlocked that mystery and it turns out that air pollution is the culprit.
It may seem like common sense to assume that inadvertently breathing filthy air can wreak havoc on our bodies in similar ways as purposely inhaling toxic fumes, but science doesn’t run on assumptions. And while scientists have long known that there’s a connection between air pollution and lung cancer, they only now understand how it works.
