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大气污染成致癌原因 Leading ： 在中国， 城市笼罩在浓重雾霾里成了司空 见惯的情景。 世界卫生组织的国际癌症研究机构将大气污染归为 致癌物。据称，有“充分证据”证实，暴露在大气污染下的户外 的人会患肺癌，而且还会增加患膀胱癌的风险。 Cityscapes shrouded ① in thick smog have become a common scene in China. Last winter Beijing s airpocalypse ”garnered ② headlines worldwide and generated much anger and debate within China. But this week，air pollution levels in the northeastern city of Harbin surpassed the previous record levels in Beijing. The city was essentially shut down after PM2.5 ，fine particulate pollution that is considered hazardous reached levels of 1 ，000 micrograms per cubic metre — 40 times the safety level recommended by the World Health Organization. Schools ，motorways and an airport were closed on Tuesday as visibility in some areas of the city dropped to less than 10 metres. Before some days ，the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer IARC) classified air pollution as carcinogenic ③. It stated that there is “sufficient evidence ” that exposure to outdoor air pollution causes lung cancer and also linked it with an increased risk of bladder cancer. It said that exposure has increased si gnificantly particularly in industrial countries with large populations ” such as China. “The air we breath has become polluted with a mixture of cancer-causing substances ，” Kurt Straif ，head of the IARC Monographs Section said in a press released. “Wenow know that outdoor air pollution is not only a major risk to health in general ，but also a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths. ” These findings ，while they show Chinas air pollution problem ，do not come as a shock to Chinese residents. Increasingly the health implications of pollution have been discussed online in local media. On the Chinese social media site Weibo，manyusers complained about the pollution in Harbin and shared their concerns. China s smog has already bee n widely lin ked to resp irator y ④ ill nesses and according to the state news agency Xinhua ，medical experts warned that t