al_P:
What really peevs me off is they never ever put the probable chances they just say your going to get it…
BBC News:
It is thought people working in at-risk industries have about a 40% increased risk of developing lung cancer.
I hope this helps.
SmashedCrabFace:
al_P:
What really peevs me off is they never ever put the probable chances they just say your going to get it…BBC News:
It is thought people working in at-risk industries have about a 40% increased risk of developing lung cancer.I hope this helps.
Those sort of figures don’t help at all unless you know what they are comparing it to.
For example, if the normal rate of developing condition A is 1 out of every million people, but when they look at HGV drivers, 2 in every million get it, then it gets reported as a 100% increased chance of developing it, when in reality it’s absolute rubbish, and is so far down in the noise that you can’t conclude anything. All news organisations will go for the most headline grabbing figure, and governments will grab onto whatever figures they want to use to prove their case at the time.
There’s a good article on it all (funnily enough on the BBC site!) at:
Gary
wildfire:
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”
It was around that time I stopped syphoning diesel and learnt how to do it without sucking 
I have never worn a pair of latex mechanics gloves and have had more than a dozen mouthfuls of fuel, it doesnt get everyone the same way, and we all know someone who has never smoked, syphoned diesel or worked with known carcinogens, and they still died of cancer.
The birds three uncles all died from it, two of them this year, one living in the USA and one staying in Derby. Civil servant and a water engineer.
This story was reported on the BBC world service this week and it was stated that the findings of this research relates to vehicles working in underground mines and was mainly conducted thirty years ago.
It doesn’t relate to modern highway engines that produce very low levels of particulate matter or engines that run on ultra low sulphur diesel.
So in effect it’s not much to worry about.
Nothing like the bbc to have a bit of lorry bashing, the public won’t think of their cars when they read the article will they 
Anyway I though the coming out of the exhaust was meant to be cleaner than what’s goes in.