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Any car - Air conditioning - 1477

Hello I have received a round robin set out below

I do not know which car hand book is referred to .

Would you have a comment please

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CAR AIR CONDITIONING - VERY IMPORTANT!

My car book says to roll down the windows to let out all the hot air before turning on A/C. WHY ?

Car Air Conditioning: No wonder more folks are dying from cancer than ever before. We wonder where this stuff comes from but here is an example that explains a lot of the cancer causing incidents.

Many people are in their cars first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, 7 days a week.

Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car. Open the windows

after you enter your car and then turn ON the AC after a couple of minutes.

Here's why: According to research, the car dashboard, seats, air freshener emit

Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen - take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car). In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause

Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. Can also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft. A car parked indoors with

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. People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession, excessive amounts of the toxin. Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver. What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.

snopes.com says. It is not the air conditioning in the car but the Benzene producing agents that cause cancer.

www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/benzene.asp

Any car - Air conditioning - Peter.N.

Petrol is probably the greatest source of benzene and most people of my generation inhaled bucket loads of it when you could afford to use it as a cleaning agent, I'm not suggesting its not harmful but we live in an age full of pollutants and they are certainly not doing us any good but in my 73 years I have inhaled many chemicals that are banned now and I am still quite healthy. I think there is a lot of scaremongering from people with bees in their bonnets. If you are permantly exposed to these things they are no doubt harmful but they affect different people differently, look at the effect of asbestos, I have lost two friends to asbestososis in recent years and yet before we were fully aware of the dangers people lives in asbestos houses, I have inhaled more than my share of it from brake linings etc over my lifetime but it hasn't affected me - yet.

Smoking must be one of the worst sources of polutants and although it kills many people, some don't seem to be affected although I certainly wouldn't do it.

We need to be sensible about these things and do what we reasonably can to limit exposure but there are all sorts of polutants and other things that are trying to kill us.