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Cleaner transport systems will reduce deaths

On the lips of many Kenyans today is talk about respiratory track illnesses. The irony of it all is that there is a fair body of knowledge of the causes of such illnesses but little is being done to nip the cancerous ailments in the bud.

Cancer of the lung is one of the most talked about type of cancer. One of the causes of lung cancer, asthma, allergies, chronic bronchitis and even pneumonia, is toxic air pollution; some of the pollution associated with exposure to vehicle emissions. The end result of these is premature deaths among people and animals.

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