Idk, I used to cycle to work a lot before changing jobs, and I’ve got to tell you, the fumes I felt in my throat were more noticeable than anything I’ve ever experienced in my car. Plus when exercising you simply breathe more.
You’re using your personal experiences to validate a broad generalization regarding the effects of air pollution on rates of lung cancer for the population of an entire country; this is wrong. Your sample size is one and your argument is “I felt the fumes in my throat more when cycling then compared to when I was in a car; therefore it must be cancer”. I appreciate that you actually had somewhat of a baseline, but your self experiment essentially tells you that exhaust fumes hurt your throat [full stop].
IDK where you were riding… 10 year cycle courier veteran from Boston here with my own anecdotal experience. This could very well be a personal health thing with you. Never had any issues related to the fumes in my throat, or heard of any related issues within the messenger community. If you told me over time that the fumes have a negative impact on healh I’d believe it, but I probably wouldn’t listen to a commuter who rode a tiny fraction of the urban cycling I’ve done personally. I’d be very interested to see a study on long term bike messengers.
Too bad for the lung cancer
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969701007586
The car owners are getting their cancer air, not bicyclists.
Pretty cool study. Shame its so small of a sample size, but it shows some very positive signs.
Idk, I used to cycle to work a lot before changing jobs, and I’ve got to tell you, the fumes I felt in my throat were more noticeable than anything I’ve ever experienced in my car. Plus when exercising you simply breathe more.
You’re using your personal experiences to validate a broad generalization regarding the effects of air pollution on rates of lung cancer for the population of an entire country; this is wrong. Your sample size is one and your argument is “I felt the fumes in my throat more when cycling then compared to when I was in a car; therefore it must be cancer”. I appreciate that you actually had somewhat of a baseline, but your self experiment essentially tells you that exhaust fumes hurt your throat [full stop].
https://ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/
https://airqualitynews.com/uncategorised/higher-air-pollution-health-risk-inside-car-study-finds/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/12/children-risk-air-pollution-cars-former-uk-chief-scientist-warns
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/13/cyclists-exposed-to-less-air-pollution-than-drivers-on-congested-routes-study
https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/cleanair/university-of-leeds-study-finds-cyclists-are-least-exposed-to-pollution-a4019511.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/12/smoking-in-cars-banned-but-children-still-inhale-toxic-fumes-in-backseats
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743516000402
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969701007586
That just prove how much we are accustomed to the polluted air in our cars, and not to the less but still polluted air outside.
IDK where you were riding… 10 year cycle courier veteran from Boston here with my own anecdotal experience. This could very well be a personal health thing with you. Never had any issues related to the fumes in my throat, or heard of any related issues within the messenger community. If you told me over time that the fumes have a negative impact on healh I’d believe it, but I probably wouldn’t listen to a commuter who rode a tiny fraction of the urban cycling I’ve done personally. I’d be very interested to see a study on long term bike messengers.
People who regularly cycle live longer than people who don’t.