"the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Klompmeester wrote:
>> "the_dawggie" <the_dawggie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:MROSj.7083$ko5.2963@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Klompmeester wrote:
>>>> "Bernd Felsche" <bernie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>> news:r95re5x6n7.ln2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> Athol <athol_SPIT_SPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>> Toby Ponsenby <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>> Kias solution to ADR 30 on their little Ceres trucks is an
EXTREMELY
>>>>>>> restricted exhaust system.
>>>>>>> About 50 mm at the exhaust manifold down to 25 at the tail.
>>>>>> Ugh. How small was that engine again?
>>>>>>> All carbon ends up in the sump:-)
>>>>>> Where it belongs. :-)
>>>>>>> But it's easily fixed and believe it or not the engine doesn't
blast
>>>>>>> noticeably more soot out the pipe anyway.
>>>>>> It's the nano-particles that you can't see that are doing the
>>>>>> damage...
>>>>> Allegedly. It's a hypothesis. No more than AGW and us making a
>>>>> hole in the ozone layer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Data dredges have found a (weak) correlation between exposure to
>>>>> high levels of diesel particulates and cancers. Uncontrolled
>>>>> "studies" and re-analyses with a middle risk ratio barely above
>>>>> unity.
>>>>>
>>>>> But the same population is typically dominated by those who can't
>>>>> afford proper health care, nice food, etc. Poverty gives you cancer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, those parents who provide a sterile bubble for their
>>>>> offsprung, will see their children suffer and probably die from the
>>>>> normal stuff that nature puts their way once outside the bubble. The
>>>>> immune system has to be innoculated by as much of the prospective
>>>>> environment as possible, early in life.
>>>> Allegedly. It's a hypothesis.
>>> It is a variable. Does not worry me in the slightest, I know
>>> a 73 year old who smokes ciggies dawn to dusk most of his
>>> life and is doing fine.
>>
>> Plenty of smokers never see 73. It's a definite health risk, as are
>> diesel fumes.
>
> The smoker I know who is 73 appears totally unaffected of almost a
> life time of chain smoking (and drinking too). Coughs sometimes.
>
> It really depends on the person, agreed some folk will get sick
> or possibly develop cancer. It's all the luck of the draw in life.
Luck has nothing to do with it. Smoking greatly increases the risk.
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