Archive for the ‘Benzene Poisoning’ Category
What product is it that people use have all of these and more in them?
Acetone: – nail polish remover
Ammonia: Household cleaner
Angelica root extract: Known to cause cancer in animals
Arsenic: Used in rat poisons
Benzene: Used in making dyes, synthetic rubber
Butane: Gas; used in lighter fluid
Carbon monoxide: Poisonous gas
Cadmium: Used in batteries
Cyanide: Deadly poison
DDT: A banned insecticide
Ethyl Furoate: Causes liver damage in animals
Formaldehiyde: Used to preserve dead specimens
Hydrazine: – rocket fuel
Hydrogen Cyanide: – rat poison
Lead: Poisonous in high doses
Methoprene: Insecticide
Megastigmatrienone: Chemical naturally found in grapefruit juice
Maltitol: Sweetener for diabetics
Methyl isocyanate: Its accidental release killed 2000 people in Bhopal, India in 1984
Napthalene: Ingredient in mothballs
Nicotine: – a poison used to kill cockroaches
Polonium: Cancer-causing radioactive element
Additives in manufactured & processed cigarettes.
(Which is different than plain tobacco.)
For the complete list on 599 additives see…
http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm
Scroll down looking at left side of page for a total of 3 pages.
Can car air conditioning cause health problems?
The following was sent to me. Is it true? I don’t have a/c in my car but know people who do.
Please do not turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car. Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning after a couple of minutes.
Here’s why: According to research, the car dashboard, sofa, 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. May 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.
So friends, please open the windows and door of your car – give time for interior to air out – dispel the deadly stuff – before you enter.
Thanks.
I know a lot of emails like that are scaremongering but I don’t have or know much about air con to have an opinion. It was sent to me by someone who I thought would know about these things.
It is a load of rubbish. Any such harmful chemicals are in too low a concentration to cause problems or not present at all.
what are the symptoms of benzene poisoning?
Benzene poisoning occurs primarily through inhalation of its vapors. Although benzene can penetrate the skin, intact skin does not easily absorb benzene into the body.
Benzene primarily attacks the blood-forming tissues of the body. Benzene damages the bone marrow where red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets are formed. These three components make up the blood and a shortage of any one of them will result in serious blood disease. Benzene is known to affect all three of these components and thus workers exposed to benzene show a variety of blood diseases.
Smoke Is Poison Ad – Benzene
Cancer Research UK advert about the harmful chemicals in cigarettes, featuring Donald Macintyre
Duration : 0:0:40
A question on manufacture of cigarettes?
First of all, I know cigarettes are bad for you but why don’t they minimise the damage? I mean, for starters, why do they have to put chemicals into cigarettes (like cyanide, benzene, etc.) when tobacco does not contain any of these compounds? Tobacco is a plant and should not have harmful ingredients in it other than nicotine. Why is it impossible to sell cigarettes containing nothing but tobacco? I understand that these chemicals will make the ciggies burn faster and other tricky things but I’m sure if those additives weren’t there in the first place then cigarettes would be nowhere near as harmful. So it should be nicotine and the carbon dioxide/monoxide only that poisoning us. In addition, they could put some vitamins and minerals into cigarettes so that at least some good can be inhaled with the bad.
David C, thanx for the explanation on combustion but I’m very aware of this subject. Combustion of a plant on its own wouldn’t produce cyanide, Polonium, etc. Oxides of Nitrogen are, yes, bad for you, but you’d get them from car fumes or just at your bankholiday Monday barbeque!
you are so correct, if they would take out some of the bad things then cigarettes would be ok (i think) to smoke. i have been off them for 14 months but i still wish i could smoke, if they did what you are suggesting, i and many more would be able to enjoy one again (i think) thanks for the nice thought, have a good day.