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Pesticides potentially as bad as smoking for increased risk in certain cancers
In modern day agriculture, pesticides are essential to ensure high enough crop yields and food security. These chemicals, however, can adversely affect plant and animal life as well as the people exposed to them. Now, in a population-based, nation-wide …