good morning. i don’t want to cause alarm, but the bbc has announced that you’re going to die of cancer.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-18415532
Sounds like the perfect excuse to put a shedload more duty on diesel - purely in the interests of public health of course 
limeyphil:
good morning. i don’t want to cause alarm, but the bbc has announced that you’re going to die of cancer.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-18415532
There’s always something to get yer…
I suppose this will be the PAH (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) I heard about donkey’s year’s ago. If we all stop breathing we’ll survive maybe 
i was told 30 yrs ago diesel was carcinogenic, so its taken the w.h.o this long to work it out!! in the words of frazer from dads army “WE ARE ALL DOOMED I TELL YOU” 
Breathing Oxygen, Eating Cornflakes, Working more than 2 hours a week, and Pressing green arrows on the Daily Mail website have all resulted in a 100% death rate of those partaking. 
Pretty deadly stuff, and everyone should avoid it then. 
Alternatively, you could see Cancer as just a side effect of breathing a nitrogen atmosphere, eating pretty much any food, and living any kind of life outside of a plastic bubble, and get on with your life! 
If Cancer is destined to kill you in 30 years, in the meantime you’re immortal so Enjoy! 
Diesels been killing operators for years (pricewise) now it’s the drivers turn. I’m asking for danger money
OVLOV JAY:
Diesels been killing operators for years (pricewise) now it’s the drivers turn. I’m asking for danger money
+1
Yeah ■■■■■■■ hilarious is lung cancer. Maybe I’ll get our friend Julie on here and you can talk to her to see how funny it is? She buries her 47 years old husband soon. He died of lung cancer and wasn’t a smoker. Wasn’t very funny watching him die over the last few months.
44 Tonne Ton:
Yeah [zb] hilarious is lung cancer. Maybe I’ll get our friend Julie on here and you can talk to her to see how funny it is? She buries her 47 years old husband soon. He died of lung cancer and wasn’t a smoker. Wasn’t very funny watching him die over the last few months.
I feel your pain but life is a pretty dangerous pass time and eventually something’s going to get you.
They keep telling us everything causes cancer, heart disease or diabetes then the next day the same things are vital for us and without trucks moving goods about the economy is up ■■■■ creek hospitals will close people will die.
In the words of monty python
“Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke, it’s true.”
Nobody is laughing at cancer. I’ve lost family and close friends to the disease. I just think it’s ■■■■■■■■ about a link to diesel. There’s plenty of lorry drivers and refinery workers that lived long cancer free lives. As far as I’m concerned, I believe that cancer is a gene, you either have it or you don’t. Maybe some things bring that gene out, smoking etc, but why do some people live healthy lives and get cancer, even children and young adults get it. Then you get an interview in the paper with a 110 year old who puts their ling life down to a bottle of scotch and 20 Benson a day
44 Tonne Ton:
Yeah [zb] hilarious is lung cancer. Maybe I’ll get our friend Julie on here and you can talk to her to see how funny it is? She buries her 47 years old husband soon. He died of lung cancer and wasn’t a smoker. Wasn’t very funny watching him die over the last few months.
no one finds cancer hilarious in any way.
my father died of a malignant brain tumour, it was a horrible experience for him, and for us.
diesel engines have been around for a long time, now all of a sudden we’re all [zb]ed. in other words, the chancellor has a reason to [zb] us some more.
what next? eggs? that ones been done.
global warming? that didn’t work so they changed it to climate change.
OVLOV JAY:
Nobody is laughing at cancer. I’ve lost family and close friends to the disease. I just think it’s ■■■■■■■■ about a link to diesel. There’s plenty of lorry drivers and refinery workers that lived long cancer free lives. As far as I’m concerned, I believe that cancer is a gene, you either have it or you don’t. Maybe some things bring that gene out, smoking etc, but why do some people live healthy lives and get cancer, even children and young adults get it. Then you get an interview in the paper with a 110 year old who puts their ling life down to a bottle of scotch and 20 Benson a day
We’re all genetically different so someone who is exposed regularly to a known carcinogen might be lucky in that his DNA can withstand
that exposure which will kill someone else. That seems to be the general understanding at present. Diesel fumes have long been strongly suspected to be carcinogenic along with many other things, unfortunately there is an element of luck of the draw but that doesn’t mean just because Joe Bloggs did it for 50 years and never killed him that it won’t kill someone else long before their time. Years ago I stopped the practice of leaving the engine running while hooking up because of concerns expressed maybe 20 years ago or more. But stupidity runs deep within the truck driving field…it’s in the genes!
limeyphil:
good morning. i don’t want to cause alarm, but the bbc has announced that you’re going to die of cancer.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-18415532
Are you not carbon based like the rest of us? Or do you breathe through a different orifice?
gardun:
limeyphil:
good morning. i don’t want to cause alarm, but the bbc has announced that you’re going to die of cancer.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-18415532Are you not carbon based like the rest of us? Or do you breathe through a different orifice?
i use gills, very good when ■■■■ diving.
scaniason:
Sounds like the perfect excuse to put a shedload more duty on diesel - purely in the interests of public health of course
Amazing, just before he dumps 3p on it as well, oh well if he spends it on the NHS we should be okay - oh crap, shot myself in the foot there! 
Woodchippings are a considered cancer risk as bad as Plutonium.Says it all.
But LPG powered trucks seem to make more sense than diesel ones anyway.
But if diesel is really so risky why isn’t aircraft kerosene in the same category considering that it’s all more or less the same stuff 
.Which should mean that airport workers would be dropping like flies just like truck drivers.
44 Tonne Ton:
OVLOV JAY:
Nobody is laughing at cancer. I’ve lost family and close friends to the disease. I just think it’s ■■■■■■■■ about a link to diesel. There’s plenty of lorry drivers and refinery workers that lived long cancer free lives. As far as I’m concerned, I believe that cancer is a gene, you either have it or you don’t. Maybe some things bring that gene out, smoking etc, but why do some people live healthy lives and get cancer, even children and young adults get it. Then you get an interview in the paper with a 110 year old who puts their ling life down to a bottle of scotch and 20 Benson a dayWe’re all genetically different so someone who is exposed regularly to a known carcinogen might be lucky in that his DNA can withstand
Like plutonium. 
Complex organic compounds are often carcinogenic. Fuels, Resins, Household Chemicals, and even Booze all count in enough quantity.
The only way to avoid exposure is to live in a bubble, which can’t even be plastic because resins & monomers are carcinogenic as well, being yet more complex organic compounds.
Even breathing Nitrogen will result in your body producing lots of THIS which has to be regularly disposed of before toxic levels can build up in the body, as is the case in Gout.
What really peevs me off is they never ever put the probable chances they just say your going to get it . the chances could be one in one billion but it gives the media enough justice to say it can happen! it really annoys me also the “media lemmings” who are sat in ■■■■ in an arm chair at home terrified to move or do anything incase they die because there gullible to just beleive whats said and not actually research the facts of the story really irritates me . . even more than cars that pace you when your in the middle lane overtaking grrrrrr.