Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public ... - Kristin Shrader-Frechette - Google Books

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In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular…