Driving trucks may have link to lung cancer.The Florida Times-Union (12/23, Patterson) reports, “Trucking jobs…appear to carry added risks of lung cancer, a new nationwide study suggests” and “that risk grows incrementally each year that workers remain in jobs as drivers, loading-dock workers and other roles that involve regular exposure to diesel fumes and other pollutants, reported researchers who studied work histories of more than 31,000 Teamsters.” These “findings represent a greater concern for Northeast Florida, where trucking and logistics represent a larger share of the job market than in the rest of the state or the nation. A little more than 10,000 people in metropolitan Jacksonville worked in truck transportation last year, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated.”

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