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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I'm very skeptical of the so-called science that claims millions die every year directly as a result of diesel exhaust byproducts. I don't know a single person who has died where the doctor declared NOx inhalation as the culprit, for instance. Besides all that, someone that succumbs to pollution that everyone else is tolerating without issue likely wasn't long for the world to begin with (not to make light of their condition).
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Surprisingly, there are some nitrogen oxides widely used in medicine, such as nitrous oxide which is one of the oldest known anaesthesics and nitric oxide which is widely used to increase the oxygen saturation after cardiac surgeries.