2009-02-20 16:41:23 -
Environmental air pollution is a much greater threat to the health of EU citizens than many of us are led to believe. The alleged effects of passive smoking are dwarfed in comparison to the deadly cocktails of toxins that are present within the atmosphere and workplaces of EU countries, including the UK.
In a recent letter received from the EU
Commission, pro-choice group Freedom2Choose have had this suspicion confirmed by one of its members.
Freedom2Choose have also been following the work of the well-known charity Breast Cancer UK. The charity is dedicated in its quest to 'address the under-acknowledged and non-lifestyle factors associated with breast cancer'.
Andy Davis, chairman of Freedom2choose states, 'obviously tackling the issues surrounding air pollution in general is a difficult task, so our main charities and government are targeting the easier option only - lifestyle choices. This way they appear' to be doing something. Unfortunately, what they are doing is negligible when it comes to tackling the primary prevention of this disease.'
Breast Cancer UK have already pointed out in a petition to the government that 'The EU recently recognised the environmental causes of breast cancer which must be taken into account when considering any public health approach to this disease. But other, high profile UK cancer charities continue to refute environmental and occupational exposures as a risk factor for breast cancer.'
Andy Davis continues, 'I would like to know how many more women need to die before this government and our main charities begin to acknowledge this. It also appears logical now that forcing smokers (and their non-smoking friends) into outdoor environments is putting them at a greater health risk than a room fitted with a modern filtration and ventilation system. This government, and the EU, are therefore following an agenda that is actually harmful to the health of its citizens'.
Modern ventilation systems include high-efficiency particulate air filters, and are designed to capture at least 99.97% of all particles greater than or equal to 0.3µm in diameter, and are also used to capture particulate matter in the extraction, thus making the indoor air quality purer than the outdoor environment.
Inexpensive air curtains can also be used to separate smoking and non-smoking areas and they have several advantages. They increase the energy efficiency of a building by preventing or reducing the unwanted exchange of hot and cold air at an entrance; they improve comfort conditions in the entrance area by preventing or warming any incoming cold draughts, thus creating a pleasant and welcoming environment; they can be used to separate atmospheric zones within a building - i.e. between non smoking and smoking zones, and to keep out air that has been polluted by traffic fumes, smells, dust, pollen etc, to repel insects and to stabilize areas of high and low humidity.
'We are living in the 21st Century with the technology available', continues Andy Davis, 'I ask why we aren't using it?'
This further confirmation from the EU comes as no surprise to many. According to a research scientist at Oxford, Dr Kitty Little, a direct link between diesel fumes and lung cancer was forged in her study of 1998. Her evidence concluded with a damning statement, Since the effect of the anti-smoking campaign has been to prevent the genuine cause from being publicly acknowledged, there is a very real sense in which we could say that the main reason for those 30,000 deaths a year from lung cancer is the anti-smoking campaign itself'
Freedom2Choose is now urging the government to acknowledge that the hysteria caused by tobacco control organisations, which is demonising and discriminating against smokers and businesses, is being used as a smokescreen to hide the main cause of lung and breast cancer.
References:
Breast Cancer UK - Primary Prevention is the Answer -
www.nomorebreastcancer.org.uk/news_4.12.08.html
Breast Cancer UK - The Cancer Industry -
www.nomorebreastcancer.org.uk/the_cancer_industry.html
Euro-Parliament Identifies Environmental Causes of Cancer -
www.nomorebreastcancer.org.uk/news_14.4.08.html
Ventilation Is A Breath Of Fresh Air -
ehstoday.com/ppe/respirators/ehs_imp_77118/
BSEE - Air Curtains For Air Quality -
www.bsee.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/3984/Air_curtains_for_air_ ..
Dr Kitty Little -
www.second-opinions.co.uk/diesel_lung_cancer.html 
