Petrol stations a health hazard?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/6359ln5

/// Study co author Marta Doval, said: 'Some airborne organic compounds - such as benzene, which increases the risk of cancer - have been recorded at petrol stations at levels above the average levels for urban areas where traffic is the primary source of emission.'///

Will most of the anti-smoking lobby now have to consider moving house, stop paying visits to all petrol stations or getting petrol stations banned?

[squarebear]

There's benzene at petrol stations?! Good grief, how much did they pay for this invaluable research?

[Ankou]

wow, the daily mail have found something else that causes cancer.

whoop de do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4abk9fd_lR4

[R1Geezer]

you miss the point AOG, the whole passive smoking thing is not to do with the harmful effects, most accept they are minor, it's to do with the disgusting smell of smokers and smoking.

[ummmm]

Always let OH fill the car up...now I have good reason :-)

[anotheoldgit]

Point taken, it just gets a little confused when the subject of smoking comes up.

Smells disgusting, a personal health habit, a health hazard to others, piles of 'fag ends' littering up the place, a drug addiction, a right to breath in fresh air, etc, etc.

[jomifl]

Just don't smoke near benzene..

[anotheoldgit]

That defiantly would be a double whammy.

[rov1100]

Thats why when I fill up I always do so right to the brim. This means I have to fill up less often.

[Whickerman]

it's a simple matter of dosage. You would need to be exposed to that particular level of benzene for a certain amount of hours a day before the risk of damage to health kicks in. No risk to the people nearby, of those filling up. But there's a real risk to, say, forecourt attendants. Not that they exist anymore.