Open Your Car Doors and Windows!!!!

[areithan1980]

After you enter your car......


According to a research done by U.C., the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener will emit Benzene, a cancer causing toxin (carcinogen). In addition to causing cancer, it poisons your bones, causes anemia, and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. ;;May also cause miscarriage.



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 toxin.

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 difficult for your body to expel.

[PETERPOOP]

i do that after work all the time while i put my stuff away. my car is an oven by the time work is done.

[Gideon]

Eh.

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

[Kal-El]

I spend 40 hours a week getting in and out of cars working at a dealer. And many of them are NEW cars which are that much stronger.

So by my calculations, I'll be dead by 4pm on Monday.

[YAR1S]

bs, lololol

[yaris-me]

Is it micrograms or milligrams? Microgram is ug and milligram is mg. If it is milligrams that is a hell of a lot of benzene.

[eTiMaGo]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

I spend 40 hours a week getting in and out of cars working at a dealer. And many of them are NEW cars which are that much stronger.

So by my calculations, I'll be dead by 4pm on Monday.

he was a jolly good fellow, he was a jolly good fellow...

[Bob Dog]

the teflon interior treatment made me cough for months

[NJBob]

I remember farting in the car then going into the bank. When I got back it was still in the car. I grossed myself out. LMAO Talk about toxic!!

[eTiMaGo]

my car smells of feet :(

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by areithan1980

After you enter your car......


According to a research done by U.C., the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener will emit Benzene, a cancer causing toxin (carcinogen). In addition to causing cancer, it poisons your bones, causes anemia, and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. ;;May also cause miscarriage.


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 toxin.

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 difficult for your body to expel.

Benzine is very expensive and highly volatile. I don't see why Toyota would use so much of it, to the point that four grams at a time were left in the air.

I'm not saying that this is "kookie" but I don't understand the source of this information.

There is something in the air of the car when it's hot. Doesn't smell like benzine to me. I've smelled benzine, mono nitro-benzine, toluene and naphthalene and the odor of the car isn't anything like any of them.

Gene

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by PK198105

hmmm that would explain a lot Gene.......

sorry couldn't resist

No biggie... I wasn't exposed to enough of it to be harmful. Some morons DO snort and huff crap like that.

I worked in a glass lab. We used these solvents for "densitometry". We would immerse a tube of one of them into a water bath, slowly heat it, and watch for the point where the sample began to submerge while watching a thermometer. Write down the observations, compare them with a chart and record the resulting density in the lab book. Write up a report and send a copy to various departments.

We also had forty pounds of mercury and several pounds of white phosphorus under oil. That stuff was kept under lock 'n key.


What has influenced me a great deal was my fireworks antics as a child. I have chronic tinnitus in my right ear, like it continuously rings, day and night, all of the time. Hearing Protection - it's not just a good idea.

Gene

[nemelek]

I always use the fresh air instead of re-circulate. This might help somewhat.

[areithan1980]

Originally Posted by NJBob

I remember farting in the car then going into the bank. When I got back it was still in the car. I grossed myself out. LMAO Talk about toxic!!

LOL! that could somewhat burn all of your nose hairs!!!

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by PK198105

hmmm that would explain a lot Gene.......

sorry couldn't resist

At another post, this time at an R&D op for a "name" company we had this special "glove box". Nestled inside was sodium and potassium metal under oil. You would put a "boat" or tray into it through an airlock, slice off what you needed, tare the scale and boat, weigh it out and then pass it back through the airlock. There was a weekly inventory of it just to prevent the witless from taking it from the premises for at home antics.

They also had something called a "perchlorate" hood. I said a silent prayer of "thanks" that I never hooked up with any "perc" in my younger years. Didn't realize that stuff was so toxic that it needed its own hoods.

Damndest thing - most everyone who worked there had bad teeth. I started to wonder if there was something in the chemicals they kept there that made people's teeth fall out.

Gene