Exhaust fumes
Sir,—Lead poisoning from .vehicular exhausts. What dangers are there?. It seems that any beast‘grazing with- 1 in 20 metres of-a main .thor--oughfare can. up substantial' amounts, .of. Jead. Service station • '.dogs';.some-' how 1 , get a goodly dose too. Now, not being-a grass 'eater and/mot ’spending overly much time-at. service stations my first thoughts are smug.‘ However,'.what' about- those, still days, of atmospheric’inVersion, when things asC vehicular exhaust fumes are trapped in a - throat-drying, eve-watering cloud over the city. Perhaps .then one could, be inhaling some. .Maybetoo, , the joggers andl walkers of our streets-might not be. eettint sueh healthy 'lung-; ful*as theythintIwonder I
what blood levels of lead might be achieved following a half-hour cycle in peak traffic. Enough perhaps to make us a little excitable and anti-social when we get home to work — Yours., etc. ’’ROGER S. RIDDELL. February 20, 1980.
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