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Carcinogen in your car

by | May 9, 2009 | Idiosyncrasies

According to a research, the car dashboards emits Benzene which is a Cancer causing toxin. In brand new cars this carcinogen is highly active. Next time you enter you car take note of the heated plastic odour in your car. It gets superimposed by the air freshener you use and get absorbed in the sofa of your car.

In addition to causing cancer, it is poisonous for human skeletal system, it also induces anemia, and reduces white blood cells and immunity. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia which further increases the risk of cancer and in females it may also cause miscarriages. Cancer is an exponential growth of body cells which gets uncontrolled.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft.. A car parked indoors with the windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level… & the people inside the car will inevitably inhale an excess amount of the toxins. It is recommended that you open the windows and door to give time for the interior to air out before you enter. Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver, and is very difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.

Cancer is a demon or negative force. One must not forget that whether it is a matter of preaution or recovery it is brought about by the victim or patient and not by the physician. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

So you are advised to not to turn on your car A/C immediately as soon as you enter the car. Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning after a couple of minutes.

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1 Comment

  1. cynicalsynapse

    This has no basis in fact. It also misinforms on what is an “acceptable” level of benzene exposure.

    I checked it on snopes.com. As the Mythbusters would say, “busted”. Although benzene is a carcinogen and a constituent in both plastics and fuel, auto components don’t off-gas to that extreme. In fact, a Korean study found exposures higher during winter months.

    OSHA’s permissable exposure limit (PEL) for benzene is 1 part per million (PPM) over an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA) or 5 PPM in 15 minutes. There is no authoritive basis for the claim 50 mg per sq ft is acceptable. In fact, OSHA‘s TWA converts to 16 mg/cubic meter which equals 4.8 mg/sq ft. Thus 50 mg/sq ft is excessive and is even double OSHA’s short term exposure limit of 24.38 mg/sq ft.