[jambutty]

WillowTheWhisp - I use the term cars to mean all infernal combustion engine vehicles. I am well aware that older buses and lorries spew out death from their exhausts at an alarming rate.

I don’t make any proposals about what to do about vehicle pollution, I was just asking those who opposed smoking on the grounds of health to others if they would now put their backs behind a campaign to get rid of lethal vehicle exhaust fumes, which by a strange coincidence also creates health problems in others. I’m not suggesting the banning of cars (I need mine because I have walking difficulties) just a change of fuel.

It would appear that hypocrisy rules. Up to right now 84 people have viewed this thread but there have only been 15 replies and some of those are mine. So where are these non-smokers? Why don’t they come in and say their piece? Come on defend the polluting motor vehicle.

The technology is available to produce fuel for the infernal combustion engine that doesn’t pollute the atmosphere but that would mean the decline of the petrol/Diesel industry and with the powerful lobby that it has it isn’t going to happen until the last drop of oil is squeezed out of the ground.

What would you rather have steeljack – a planet with an atmosphere that kills or a dearer loaf of bread? I would rather pay an extra 50 p for a loaf of bread than be choked to death with vehicle exhaust fumes. And I am sure that I am not alone with that view.