My Benzene Law Firm » Benzene Poisoning

This is chain email true?

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:23:20 +0000

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No wonder more folks are dying from cancer than ever before. We
wonder where this stuff comes from but here is an example that
explains a lot of the cancer causing incidents. Hmmm. Many people
are in their cars first thing in the morning and the last thing at
night, 7 days a week.. As I read this, it makes me feel guilty and
ill. Please pass this on to as many people as possible. Guess its
not too late to make some changes
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Car A/C (Air Conditioning) MUST READ!!!
Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car.
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Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the AC after
a couple of minutes.
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Here’s why: ????
According to a 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).
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In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes
anemia and reduces white blood cells.
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Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer.
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Can also cause miscarriage.
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`Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50m g per sq.ft. A car parked
indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene.
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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.
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People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably
inhale, in quick succession, excessive amounts of the toxin.
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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.
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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.
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It just doesn’t seem plausible.. If it is true, why have I not heard of it sooner?

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

This email’s been around since around the same time last year. Rather than summarize what they put, I just pasted the link. It’s listed as partially true, partially false, and explains why.

It’s always a good site to check when you receive something like this. The main page is www.snopes.com.

Why are we not being told the real danger from the oil spill? Benzene and H2S?

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:24:23 +0000

Millions are in danger but they don’t even know it and the government has denied leaked reports of plans to evacuate the Tampa Bay region. They are spraying Corexit 9500 all over the gulf coast further poisoning millions of victims.

http://www.examiner.com/x-17299-Hernando-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d1-Gulf-Oil-Spill-2010-Plans-to-evacuate-Tampa-Bay-area-expected-to-be-announced

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/benzene-and-hydrogen-sulfide-the-real-dangers-from-the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill

You snake-oil selling, tin-foil hat wearing, …. oh wait..
He provides links with factual information?
Ouch, cognitive dissonance is giving me a headache..
Do I believe what master tells me, or think for myself?

Mike?? Really!!
H2S:
Long-term, low-level exposure may result in fatigue, loss of appetite, headaches, irritability, poor memory, and dizziness. Chronic exposure to low level H2S (around 2 ppm) has been implicated in increased miscarriage and reproductive health issues among Russian and Finnish wood pulp workers. 2 parts per million is a heavy concentration to you?

Benzene
DNA changes and breaks down at levels as low as 100 parts per billion. Recorded levels by the EPA are over 3000 parts per billion! Also, It is a chemical whose long term exposure is exponentially more dangerous than short term exposure pumping gas.

is there any truth to this causing cancer?

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:09:00 +0000

today i received 5 warning emails from family saying this:

". Many people are in their cars first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, 7 days a week. As I read this, it makes me feel guilty and ill. its not too late to make some changes

Car A/C (Air Conditioning)
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 AC after a couple of minutes.

Here’s why:

According to a 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.

Can also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50mg 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."

i dont believe this myself and if it is true i doubt its any more dangerous than any other cancer causing agents.

do you know if this is for real or just another hoax?

When in doubt, check Snopes.

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

please someone help me with my spelling corrections?

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:32:56 +0000

It is important for people to know how dangerous environmental smoke is because it can affect the health of many other people live. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is also called second smoke or passive smoke which is defined as “the smoke you breathe that comes from other people, whether they exhale it or get it from the tobacco burning near you, like the end of a cigarette (side stream smoke).” Environmental tobacco smoke, secondhand smoke, or passive smoke contained over 4000 dangerous chemicals in it such as toxins (poisons) and carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals). Several of these dangerous chemicals are acetone (paint stripper), cyanide (rat poison), DDT (insecticide), ammonia (toilet cleaner), formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic and hydrogen cyanide. Non-smokers can get exposed to second-hand smoke everywhere in the public places for instance restaurants, shopping centers, public transportations, workplaces, schools, daycare centers and other places . Therefore, smoking should be banned in all public locations because it makes the public victims of second hand smoke leading to many serious cancers, illnesses and it can also caused many other issues as well.

First of all, I think that smoking should be banned in public places because smoking can affect the environmental health. For example, there are many cigarette butts littering on the ground everyday and many would carrying in the rivers or lakes later by the rain. As a result, these cigarette butts would eaten accidentally by the fishes or other animals that live in the water and would cause them to die. And whatever is left is staying on the ground which would probably takes about twenty-five years to decompose. Therefore, the toxic that remain in cigarette filter would later leak into the soil and contaminating the plants.

Second of all, I think smoking should be banned in public places because it can cause bad air pollution. For example, when they are smoking there are many toxic
chemicals that releases from the smoke of tobacco into the air such as tar, nicotine, benzene, benzopyrene, carbon monoxide, ammonia, dimethyinitrosamine, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide and acrolein. Therefore, the smoke that is coming out of the cigarette is harmful for all the non-smokers when they breathe it in. Based on the studies of secondhand smoke, it shows that air pollution can harm the heart and circulatory system. Also, earlier research found that exposure to the secondhand smoke for just one cigarette a day can speed up the development of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is defined as “a form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.”

you have done a great job!!!!
it should be second-hand instead of secondhand
day -care instead of daycare
toxic to be changed as toxins

It is important for people to know how dangerous environmental smoke is because it can affect the health of many other people live. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is also called second smoke or passive smoke which is defined as “the smoke you breathe that comes from other people, whether they exhale it or get it from the tobacco burning near you, like the end of a cigarette (side stream smoke).” Environmental tobacco smoke, second-hand smoke, or passive smoke contained over 4000 dangerous chemicals in it such as toxins (poisons) and carcinogens (cancer causing chemicals). Several of these dangerous chemicals are acetone (paint stripper), cyanide (rat poison), DDT (insecticide), ammonia (toilet cleaner), formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic and hydrogen cyanide. Non-smokers can get exposed to second-hand smoke everywhere in the public places for instance restaurants, shopping centres, public transportations, workplaces, schools, day-care centres and other places . Therefore, smoking should be banned in all public locations because it makes the public victims of second hand smoke leading to many serious cancers, illnesses and it can also caused many other issues as well.

First of all, I think that smoking should be banned in public places because smoking can affect the environmental health. For example, there are many cigarette butts littering on the ground everyday and many would carrying in the rivers or lakes later by the rain. As a result, these cigarette butts would eaten accidentally by the fishes or other animals that live in the water and would cause them to die. And whatever is left is staying on the ground which would probably takes about twenty-five years to decompose. Therefore, the toxins that remain in cigarette filter would later leak into the soil and contaminating the plants.

Second of all, I think smoking should be banned in public places because it can cause bad air pollution. For example, when they are smoking there are many toxic
chemicals that releases from the smoke of tobacco into the air such as tar, nicotine, benzene, benzopyrene, carbon monoxide, ammonia, dimethyinitrosamine, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide and acrolein. Therefore, the smoke that is coming out of the cigarette is harmful for all the non-smokers when they breathe it in. Based on the studies of second-hand smoke, it shows that air pollution can harm the heart and circulatory system. Also, earlier research found that exposure to the second-hand smoke for just one cigarette a day can speed up the development of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is defined as “a form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.”

Hope I have not missed out any thing more ………..:)

there are at least 43 cancer causing chemicals in cigarettes, some are detailed below. what do you think?

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:28:14 +0000

Benzene (petrol additive)
A colourless cyclic hydrocarbon obtained from coal and petroleum, used as a solvent in fuel and in chemical manufacture – and contained in cigarette smoke. It is a known carcinogen and is associated with leukaemia.

Formaldehyde (embalming fluid)
A colourless liquid, highly poisonous, used to preserve dead bodies – also found in cigarette smoke. Known to cause cancer, respiratory, skin and gastrointestinal problems.

Ammonia (toilet cleaner)
Used as a flavouring, frees nicotine from tobacco turning it into a gas, found in dry cleaning fluids.

Acetone (nail polish remover)
Fragrant volatile liquid ketone, used as a solvent, for example, nail polish remover – found in cigarette smoke.

Tar
Particulate matter drawn into lungs when you inhale on a lighted cigarette. Once inhaled, smoke condenses and about 70 per cent of the tar in the smoke is deposited in the smoker’s lungs.

Nicotine (insecticide/addictive drug)
One of the most addictive substances known to man, a powerful and fast-acting medical and non-medical poison. This is the chemical which causes addiction.

Carbon Monoxide (CO) (car exhaust fumes)
An odourless, tasteless and poisonous gas, rapidly fatal in large amounts – it’s the same gas that comes out of car exhausts and is the main gas in cigarette smoke, formed when the cigarette is lit. Others you may recognize are :

Arsenic (rat poison), Hydrogen Cyanide (gas chamber poison)

source: Health Education Authority (UK) – Lifesaver

The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret.

Tobacco companies reporting this information were:

American Tobacco Company
Brown and Williamson
Liggett Group, Inc.
Philip Morris Inc.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

While these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes their properties, often for the worse. Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette, many of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic. Carbon monoxide
nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide and ammonia are all present in cigarette smoke. Forty-three known carcinogens are in mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke, or both.

It’s chilling to think about not only how smokers poison themselves, but what others are exposed to by breathing in the secondhand smoke. The next time you’re missing your old buddy, the cigarette, take a good long look at this list and see them for what they are: a delivery system for toxic chemicals and carcinogens.

Cigarettes offer people only a multitude of smoking-related diseases and ultimately death.

Smokers…if you are brave enough then have a look.

http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm

Where to go fron here?

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:02:22 +0000

I have just realized that i have been being slowly poisoned for 5 years!
The story began in 2005 when i moved in to my current residence. I signed my tenancy on 7/7/05, on 25/10/05 i reported a horid smell in the kitchen coming from under the boiler.
The housing association sent out a contractor….he determined that the horrid smell was coming from the old drain pipe from the boiler. This pipe was poking up through the worktop…the smell was coming from there.
He got some electrical tape and taped up over the pipe.
Nothing further was logged as the contractor obviously did not think it was a problem.
I have suffered from severe nausea since i moved into the property. My medical history clearly show i was fine up until the end of 2005…and ill up until dec 2009.
My doctor has been stumped at why no matter what " Anti depressant " she puts me on i continue to feel sick. I have been on 20+ anti depressants, beta blockers, sleeping tablets, anti sickness tablets, IBS tablets…none helped the nausea.
25th Feb 2010 my kitchen was torn out ready for a new one….the landlord also paid for a new combi boiler.
After the boiler was fitted the fitter asked me if i had smelt gas….i told him that i hadnt but there was a funny smell i couldnt identify. He then went on to tell me that he had to replace a section of pipe as it had a pin hole leak in it. I have pictures of the old pipe…before it was replaced and the " section " that was replaced due to the leak.
The pipe was located behind a kitchen cabinet….none of the cabinets had backs.
I have secured a lot of information regarding natural gas poisoning….i have contacted the manufacturer of the odour as well as NGRID.
I have print outs from the Hazardous Substances Database which i am going to show to my doctor tomorrow.
There is clearly a link between the time i moved to the property…the gas leak found and my 5 years of untreatable nausea.
Natural gas poisoning causes a lot of the symptoms i have. I have called an ambulance on several occasions due to what felt like heart attacks…im 30 btw. This is all documented.
As are all the medications i have been prescribed and the tests carried out. At the beginning of my sickness i had an Endoscopy….they thought it was bacteria to begin with but then slowly drew to the conclusion it was infact anxiety.
This seemed like a plausible answer to my nausea, shaking, chest cramps, insomnia, and agoraphobia. I had split up from my girlfriend due to my sickness….i was always so nauseas i could never go out in the final 2 years of our relationship….i was with her for 7 years! and the final 2 i was so ill she decided she could no longer cope with it.
Since 2005 i have been able to work maybe 2 years because i have always felt so ill….mainly in the morning.
Everything points to the gas being the root of the problem…..please read up on natural gas poisoning before claiming its not toxic….or talking about CO2 poisoning….ITS NOT THE SAME.

I have spent the last week reading up on each chemical in the gas before it is burnt….as it is in the pipes before combustion.
The gas BEFORE combustion contains a whole bunch of nastyness……the gas in the pipes are made up of :

90% Methane
5% Ethane
3% Propane
2% Other components ( radon, benzene, and odourants )

Like i say i have studied hard on this subject, i do not expect my doctor to accept that they were wrong so i have printed off a lot of data to show them. I have also requested my medical history from 2005 – 2009. This shows a clear correlation.

My landlord is responsible….they send in a contractor to maintain the boiler but they are useless….and have clearly failed to spot the leak. I have made numerous complaints about this company over the past 5 years.

The windows are always on vent in my place due to the " horrid " smell i reported back in 2005. I also smoke.

What should i do now….???? the evidence is clearly piling up against my landlord.
I have taken fabric samples of furniture and sealed them in air tight jars. Blood tests can reveal the poisoning….its shown in the blood count….i have had maybe 40 blood tests in the past 5 years.

I was earning £35k a year prior to my illness.

I intend on suing my landlord….you may say that its for the money and yea it is!! My life has been misery for 5 years….i want to live it to the max now im free of my nausea!!!

I might also point out that natural gas also has a more sinister side in that it can cause infertility and cancer in the bones ( leukaemia ) so i will be requesting tests for these also.

I dont want to use a no win no fee lawyer….but have no idea what do do from here really?
I want to sue for loss of earnings, pain and suffering and damages.
I would imagine if successful this could be potentially worth £200k +, so i do not want to use a crappy lawyer with no knowledge or an ambulance chaser.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as im g
For twats like BruceWayne…..

Dont blame me dick head, blame my landlord :p…blame my doctor but you cant blame me PRICK!

So what hes basically saying is that even though i was being poisoned this is not a good enough reason to clam benefit??? How about fuck off twat…i pay my taxes…probably more than you ever have :p

Get the name and address of the gas company that fixed it. Get the name of the gas man. Talk to a good personal injury attorney in your state.

Smoking Opinion?

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:02:32 +0000

what is your opinion on smoking. i hate it and will not go near a ciggiratte ever and i think the smoking ban was fantastic as my local pub smells better and you can actually go in there without choking on the fumes and when i found out that this is in a ciggy:

Acetic Acid (Corrosive to respiratory tract)
Acetone (used in nail polish removers.)
Ammonia. (Used in floor and toilet cleaners)
Arsenic (a poison)
Cadmium (Car battery Fluid)
Carbon Monoxide (interferes with the supply of oxygen in the blood to the rest of the body)
DDT/ dielderon (Insecticides)
Ethanol (Alcohol)
Formalin (used in preserving human tissue and fabric)
Hexamine (used in explosive compounds)
Hydrogen Cyanide (Poison)
Methane (Petroleum Gas)
Naphthalene (used in moth balls)
Nicotine (Schedule 6 Poison)
Nitro Benzene (a petrol additive)
Phenols (used in disinfectants)
Stearic Acid (used in candle wax)
Toluene (Industrial solvent)
Vinyl Chloride (used in PVC)
sorry i ran out of words
but any way every time a smoker walked p[assed me i thought a) i was gonna die
b) how can these people live
c) no wonder it kills you

I like that you don’t like to smoke. But you can’t just READ something and say you know everything on it. I personally hate smoking and alcohol because of family members who have abused the two substances and made my life a living hell and still to this day. I also gag when I smell smoke, and pissed off when I see liquor.

What product is it that people use have all of these and more in them?

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:21:22 +0000

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?

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:46:23 +0000

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?

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:47:09 +0000

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.