The Association of British Drivers
Health

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As part of their general propaganda against cars, Britain's anti-car cartel loves to invent some silly contrived argument that cars are 'bad for your health'. One should of course bear in mind that in our unscientific paranoid society, some hysterical fool has at one time or another claimed just about everything is bad for your health.
 

Greens love to paint a rosy picture of the past but neglect to mention one or two key facts:   It has been estimated that at the end of the 19th century, as many people died as a result of disease caused by "emissions" from horse-drawn transport, as are killed today in motor vehicle accidents.   When canals were Britain's main transport system, far more people died from drowning than happens today.

• Asthma not caused by outdoor pollution
  The incidence of asthma is on the rise. The number of cars is increasing. That, so they claim, is proof that cars cause asthma.
• Britain's air quality — The facts about car exhausts
  Official figures that show there is NO air quality case against the car!
  
• Health and the School Run [pdf 62k]
  A report by Peninsula Medical School, Deriford Hospital, Plymouth
  published in the British Medical Journal 2004-08-17.
  "Being driven to school does not affect the overall physical activity of 5 year olds."
• Particulates (PM10s)
  Cars are the smallest single transport-related source.
• The Car — The Environmental Scapegoat
  The anti-car lobby's big lies refuted. (1996)
  

 
Featured Link (PDF document, Adode Acrobat required)

Transport & Health in London A report for the NHS Executive London, which shows that pollution from traffic is not the issue the government make it out to be.

 

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