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Do not turn on A/C immediately as soon as you enter the car! Please open the windows after you enter your car and do not turn ON the air-conditioning immediately.

According to a research done, the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener emits Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen- take note of the heated plastic Smell in your car). In addition to causing cancer, it poisons your bones, causes anemia, and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. May also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft.. A car parked indoors with the windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level ... and the people inside the car will inevitably inhale an excess amount of the toxins.

It is recommended that you open the windows and door to give time for the interior to air out before you enter. Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver, and is very difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/be ... tXIQTIr.99

ozonkoyboy wrote:Do not turn on A/C immediately as soon as you enter the car! Please open the windows after you enter your car and do not turn ON the air-conditioning immediately.

According to a research done, the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener emits Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen- take note of the heated plastic Smell in your car). In addition to causing cancer, it poisons your bones, causes anemia, and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. May also cause miscarriage.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft.. A car parked indoors with the windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level ... and the people inside the car will inevitably inhale an excess amount of the toxins.

It is recommended that you open the windows and door to give time for the interior to air out before you enter. Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver, and is very difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/be ... tXIQTIr.99

I find it odd that you should publish the warning and add the link to Snopes which marks the whole thing as probable hoax with a status of 'UNPROVEN' i.e. As it is doubtful there is any truth in it....

Good topic re, aircon. in car. I have to switch it off a lot of the time due to breathing being affected, I think it is a fairly well known fact that air con of any description whilst feeling more comfortable is not actually good for you.

Driving the car on the road is far more dangerous.

Johnny Lee wrote:.......I have to switch it off a lot of the time due to breathing being affected, I think it is a fairly well known fact that air con of any description whilst feeling more comfortable is not actually good for you.

Are your filters clean?

If the AC is not on recirculate, a lot of dust enters the car filters, obviously reduces efficiency, but allows more dust to enter the car (assuming the windows are closed of course).

Might be worth checking.

Thanks to all who responded, Groucho your name proceeds you, as i mentioned, IT'S WORTH CONSIDERING,which is not a statement in point of fcact that is why iI posted the link, so people who are in dought can make up their own minds, I personally prefer to take this on board
The CHOICE is yours

The whole raison d'être for Snopes is to blow rumour that proliferates via email and the internet out of the water...