**Mike** wrote:
Someone who is genuinely concerned about the environment, my children’s children will all have Asthma, unless we do something about pollution from industry, cars and using up all natural resources?
Ignorance is expecting to knock down green things and replace them with tarmac and disregarding the environment.
I’m the ignorant one hay?
Sorry, but you
are ignorant about the causes of Asthma - and so is everybody else, because the cause is not known. What is known is that vehicle fumes (with the exception of particulates beltched out by buses which aggravate existing conditions) have absolutely nothing to do with it - except in the imagination of car haters that want to put the cause of absolutely every problem known to man onto the evil car.
PulmonologyChannel wrote:
The cause of asthma is unknown. Studies suggest a strong link between asthma and atopy, the hereditary presence of antibodies associated with allergic reactions. Exposure to environmental allergens can trigger asthma symptoms. Among the most common allergens are microscopic droppings of dust mites and cockroaches, airborne pollens and molds, plants and plant proteins, enzymes, and pet dander (minute scales of hair, feathers, or skin).
Exposure to a variety of occupational irritants (e.g., vapors, dust, gases, fumes, tobacco smoke, air pollution) also can worsen or cause asthma.
http://www.pulmonologychannel.com/asthma/causes.shtml
If you don't believe them, then how about the Governments Chief Medical Officer in 1995, an NHS commissioned report in 1999 or Dr Martin Stern of the British Alergy Foundation. The ABD have done a page about it because so many people have been fooled by the car haters:
http://www.abd.org.uk/asthma.htm
One of the safe speed members even raised an ASA complaint about a "Cars Cause Asthma" advert on the back of a bus because it was a blatant lie.
http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3278.
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