Health Canada predicts the health effects of exposure to pollution from gasoline exhaust fumes could cost $7.3 billion in a year based on their effects on human health. The study found gasoline exhaust pollution was associated with 940 premature deaths, making up a cost of $6.8 billion. These included deaths from lung cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory system-related deaths. It follows another study the agency produced on the effects of diesel fumes that suggested the impacts on population health from gasoline emissions are greater than those from diesel pollution. That previous study suggested diesel exhaust was associated with 710 premature deaths in 2015 and calculates the total cost at $5.5 billion.
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