Comment 82558

By Kevin Love (anonymous) | Posted November 03, 2012 at 10:03:48

Car drivers kill a lot more people with the lethal poisons in car pollution than car drivers kill by hitting people.

Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David McKeown, reports that in Toronto:

Car drivers poison and kill 440 people every year.
Car drivers poison and injure 1,700 people every year so seriously that they have to be hospitalized.

Children and the elderly are most vulnerable to being poisoned by car drivers. Every year in Toronto:

1,200 children experience acute bronchitis episodes due to being poisoned by car drivers.
Children have 68,000 asthma symptom days due to being poisoned by car drivers.

Source:
http://www.toronto.ca/health/hphe/pdf/air_pollution_burden.pdf

The only safe dose of the lethal poisons in car pollution is zero, which is why I have zero tolerance of car drivers driving cars in downtown Hamilton - the downtown should be car-free.



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