Navneet Singh, Thoracic Medical Oncologist at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, posted on LinkedIn:
“The question isn’t whether the product whose image is displayed on the ‘advertisement’ works to mitigate the profoundly harmful health effects of outdoor air pollution – maybe it does – maybe it doesn’t.
The question is what should be (must be) done so that people who don’t smoke – do NOT end up ‘smoking’ ill effects of poor air quality.
Clean air / clean water / clean food are a prerequisite for good physical and mental health (& IMO a fundamental human right).
Furthermore as a pulmonologist & thoracic oncologist – prolonged exposure can lead to several diseases (including lung cancer) or worsen pre-existing conditions.
When young individuals who have never-smoked present to me in the clinic with metastatic lung adenocarcinoma & ask me why they got it – I have no answer. But at the back of my mind, I cannot get away from the feeling that perhaps it was not having access to clean air-water-food.”
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