Carbon Dioxide Toxicity

[Judy M2]

As lung cancer strikes more and more healthy younger people, the article below got me thinking. I've always thought that environmental factors are the culprit, and the urgent call for research in the article is well-founded. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311844520_Carbon_dioxide_toxicity_and_climate_change_a_major_unapprehended_risk_for_human_health

[Rower Michelle]

Thanks Judy- I’ve always wondered about that too.  Growing up literally on top of the Garden State Parkway as well as  living in Dallas & Miami spending hours in rush hour traffic…. 

 

[ChiMama]

Interesting! Now that I've had 3 separate cancers and not a lot of cancer in my family except for my mother who's also had 3 different cancers, I've been wondering if I lived on a toxic waste site at some point.

[Judy M2]

I remember the old days (1970s) commuting to NYC in buses with no AC in the summer. Windows open and traffic would stop dead in the Lincoln Tunnel. In those days, gasoline still contained lead. Add post-9/11 exposure, and I don't wonder why I got lung cancer. 

If you're in the NY metro area, be very careful of the wildfire smoke coming your way from the West. That stuff is toxic too. 

[Rower Michelle]

Just got that visual Judy, as a kid taking the bus through the tunnel I can still remember all the grime on the tiles & that horrible smell!  It was gross…