monarch of the highway:
Well I’m ok I always open the windows when I smoking my capstan full strength in me Austin maxi
The Capstans’ are ok ,me grandad lived to 98 despite the threat of getting “pigeon cancer” and “miners cancer”
,but that old timy wood with all that varnish and polish ,that’s a killer that is 
Scanner:
Do you chew car parts?
I did the other day ,on a night out i cleaned the cab out ,liberal doses of Dash Flash all over .I decided to go walk about and stood up in my socks to put me going out threads on and promptly buried me face in the dash
it’s always a good idea to check these emails out before you share them , even if you trust the sender.
cancer.org/cancer/news/exper … nzene.aspx
I use Google, Hoaxslayer and Snopes
Benzene
After 20 years on a chemical works with 6 years on a benzole refinery and 3 years doing OU (Only stopped due to redundancy) I think I may be qualified to speak on the matter.
Plastics, not familiar with all of them but the only one I know with a benzene ring in the structure is styrene (As in polystyrene).
Dont forget benzene is a hydro carbon ie carbon and hydrogen so when it burns, you get water and carbon dioxide (carbon monoxide when there is incomplete combustion)
The main problem is vapours (as from a petrol tank or distillation from heat as in smoking just before the “flame” burns the tobacco)
However the problem with plastics is the combustion products rather than the in-the-main non existant benzene.
PVC is poly vinyl chloride which can produce carbonyl chloride (aka phosgene, a WW1 poison gas) and hydrogen chloride which with water is hydrochloric acid. Both of which I have handled by the hundredweight.
Contraflow:
mastesallan:
This one is for all to read and then share…might help save a life…Where did you copy and paste this crock of [zb] from?
The first thing I do before I get in my car/lorry is open the door. Which I would have thought is better than the Window
Dafman:
The first thing I do before I get in my car/lorry is open the door. Which I would have thought is better than the Window
We are all told here to make sure all windows are closed before turning it on fully, full A/C recirculates the air in the car and cools it down, even a slight crack in the doors or windows lessens the efficiency.
Don’ harp on about cancer and pther things, I believe if it’s in you then you will get it, it just takes a trigger to start it.
I smoked for 45 years, carsogenic free, don’t smoke anymore because its too expensive, my Dad smoked all his life, died at 94, my grandad smoked ciggy’s cigars and a pipe all his life and died at 98. I played every weekend with mercury in my Mums office, even licked my fingers afterwards, played in a barn made of aspestos. Has done nothing 
Pat Hasler:
We are all told here to make sure all windows are closed before turning it on fully, full A/C recirculates the air in the car and cools it down, even a slight crack in the doors or windows lessens the efficiency.
Don’ harp on about cancer and pther things, I believe if it’s in you then you will get it, it just takes a trigger to start it.
I smoked for 45 years, carsogenic free, don’t smoke anymore because its too expensive, my Dad smoked all his life, died at 94, my grandad smoked ciggy’s cigars and a pipe all his life and died at 98. I played every weekend with mercury in my Mums office, even licked my fingers afterwards, played in a barn made of aspestos. Has done nothing
Bloody hell, a real man! I used to think the stories about excess oestrogen in the water in this country were guff, now I’m not so sure, given some of the drivel I hear blokes talk in the UK.
I think living in a place where men are men and women are grateful must prolong your life too!
Good on you, Pat.
WETBEHINDTHELUGS:
Have I walked into the Daily Mail website by mistake?
I would have thought that 800mg of benzene in an enclosed space is enough to make your car explode on opening the door - never mind the cancer risk, if you’re cremated on the spot first! 
The amount of fuel injected into an engine for a single cycle is a lot less than 800mg after all, but that’s still enough to cause a big enough explosion to crank the engine once over! 
Also, which are the unstable plastics that are producing this benzene?
Plastics don’t decompose into nasty organic gases unless you heat them to about 900 degrees first.
You could set fire to your car with a 800mg explosion first I guess. 
My first argument still stands though. You don’t worry about cancer when the risk is cremation instead. 
switchlogic:
Phantom Mark:
Last time I looked the UK was one of the smallest producers of cars in the world, easily outstripped by Asia and Asia Minor.
Is that why we had the Mini Minor, instead of the Mini Major?
Contraflow:
Phantom Mark:
Instead of making yourself look a fool and mocking someone maybe you should educate yourself first?Oh the irony.
Perhaps you should heed your own advice?
This is blatant scaremongering copypasta usually posted by naive children and hysterical women on Facebook.
Which one are you?
I’m leaning towards hysterical woman.
[/quote]I would’nt,if she moves you’ll fall over!!
We’re all dying anyway
Dafman:
The first thing I do before I get in my car/lorry is open the door. Which I would have thought is better than the Window
Priceless! Just have this image of a fella opening the door of the lorry, putting in his gear bag, getting back out for a walk around and then getting in, and opening the window to let out the air!!
To quote jim royal " my arse"
ei-resource.org/news/general … interiors/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_car_smell
I like I said before, and will say again, whilst I do not back the original email I am just saying do not be so quick to shoot these things down in flames, it’s at least worth a look.
come on lads…OK times change…have a look at the lads off S jones and Richard Read doing the middle east
in A series ERF,s with the hen shead type sleepers. we,ve had two weeks of nice weather and your moaning.
it was only 6 months ago it was to much snow…what do you want.
3300John:
come on lads…OK times change…have a look at the lads off S jones and Richard Read doing the middle east
in A series ERF,s with the hen shead type sleepers. we,ve had two weeks of nice weather and your moaning.
it was only 6 months ago it was to much snow…what do you want.
Have you actually read this thread or did you just read the title?
Contraflow:
3300John:
come on lads…OK times change…have a look at the lads off S jones and Richard Read doing the middle east
in A series ERF,s with the hen shead type sleepers. we,ve had two weeks of nice weather and your moaning.
it was only 6 months ago it was to much snow…what do you want.Have you actually read this thread or did you just read the title?
He’s clearly been itching to do a ‘in my day…’ comment about aircon he got a bit over excited and did it in the wrong place!
got a new one on facebook this morning 
LET EVERYONE WHO HAS A WIFE/GIRLFRIEND/ DAUGHTER KNOW PLEASE!
… Bottled water in your car is very dangerous!
On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said that this is what caused her
breast cancer. It has been identified as the most common cause
of the high levels of dioxin in breast cancer tissue…
Sheryl Crow’s oncologist told her: women should not drink bottled
water that has been left in a car. The heat reacts with the chemicals
in the plastic of the bottle which releases dioxin into the water.
Dioxin is a toxin increasingly found in breast cancer tissue. So please
be careful and do not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.
what’s next 
scratching ya balls causes cancer 