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Why don't you do a report on tire and brake contaminants. Both
tires and brakes contain asbestos and other carcinogenic
contaminants from tar to metal powders and ceramics(glass) not
related to exhaust. The average car in CA travels 12,000 miles and
produces more than 144,000,000 mgs of poison DUST that is covering
our food sources, roads, puddles, and drains into our rivers, lakes
and water supplies, eventually ending up on our beaches. We have
more than 200 million licensed vehicles in the US. An 18 wheel
trucks has already produced over 1000 pounds of this dust at every
tires change. Asbestos used in auto parts as in 85% of the
construction materials still sold in American outlets has been
found to burrow through skin into organs causing most forms of
cancer either by inhalation or touch. It is spread through normal
or intimate contact, clothes, air, washing and it envelopes each
car as we drive with or without our windows open, while vehicle
exhaust produces only around 7 liters. Less  than the 40 pounds of
hydrocarbons produced by a average tree in an average California
summer. We park our toxic cars in garages , ride our cycles without
face masks, and we bike thinking that we are safe. FROM WHAT! 

A car 144,000,000 mgs a smoker only 12,000 mgs or so, yet we tax
smokers at 8.5 trillion dollars a year. A set of car tires has a
measly $12-15 environmental tax and unlike smokers who are charged
full sales tax on the suggested retail of the pack, tire
manufacturer discount tire and we only charge them sales tax on the
final purchase price. 

If groups like yours weren't so into repeating the lies by the ACS,
APA, and others who use misinformation to increase taxes and
regulations on smokers so they can waste money on more biased TV,
radio and print advertisements perhaps some real cancer research
and cures could be found. Seems odd smokers are blamed for causing
lung cancer when they only pollute about 3-400 or so of their
individual 70000 daily inhalations with so little tar contaminated
smoke. What about the other 69,700 breaths they take a day that are
polluted by asbestos laden tire and brake dust AND exhaust
contaminants. That doesn't count the tire cores that are dumped
each year here and across our borders and are then burned or
recycled into Safe? sidewalk and gym material. How safe is
asbestos, powdered plastic, powdered metal and the other composites
used in their manufacturing processes. 

We talk about pollution yet we let racers burn off a set of tires
ever 2-3 laps for dragsters and 10-20 for stock cars. Spectators
have no idea what they are breathing yet tracks get filled every
weekend during the hottest months of the year just adding to even
more polluted air quality. Again, its the smokers. Our engines have
been filtered for nearly a hundred years aand they just now start
putting cabin filters in that only catch recirculated air. What
about a single cracked window on mainstreet where 10-60, cars
travel a day. 144,000,000 mgs???  And now have drifting at tracks
(See pic) and we still want to steal anotehr $300 a year from each
smoker. For what? You know darn well where cancer in America comes
and it is not form human or automobile exhausting.