Does diesel give you cancer?

A report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (part of the World Health Organisation) has said there is strong evidence that diesel fumes cause cancer.

The working group chairman, Christopher Portier, said: "The scientific evidence was compelling and the working group's conclusion was unanimous: diesel engine exhaust causes lung cancer in humans." However, the car industry's attitude to the study is that the participants seem to have been living in a cave for the last ten years.