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Dangerous
Gas in Car Air Conditioners is Causing Lung Cancer and Alzheimer's
Disease-Fiction!
Summary of
eRumor This
email says that air conditioners in 1985 to 1998 cars are dangerously
toxic and are spewing a gas that is the leading cause of Alzheimer's
disease and lung cancer.
The
Truth This
story is filled with fiction and
inaccuracies from top to bottom. The writer claims to be a
researcher for "The American Motor Vehicle Safety Organization."
TruthOrFiction.com cannot find any such group. It claims that all
air conditioners for all cars were ordered from a corporation called Akson
Technologies Initiative. TruthOrFiction.com cannot find any such
organization. Also, there is no single company that has made all air
conditioners for all cars. The email claims that a flaw in the
design of the air conditioners allowed carbon monoxide to leak into the
guts of the air conditioning system and mix with freon gas to produce a
toxic substance called
Dichlorodifluorocarbonmonoxide." An air conditioner
expert tells TruthOrFiction.com that In auto air
conditioners, the freon gas is inside a sealed system and cannot mix with
carbon monoxide. Similarly, if the system with the freon inside is
properly sealed, there would not be any toxic gas leaking anyway.
Additionally, there is no such substance as "Dichlorodifluorocarbonmonoxide."
It's a fabricated word. Anyone familiar with health risks of
this alleged magnitude knows that the determination of whether there was
any danger or correlation with lung cancer or Alzheimer's disease would
not be made by an auto company. It would be researched by health
professionals and any findings of the significance alleged in this email
would be front page news, not revealed by a poorly contrived
email.
update 06/07/08
A real example of the story as it has been circulated:
DEAR AUTOMOBILE USER:
I am a researcher with the American Motor Vehicle Safety
Organization (AMVSO).
Over the past eight years, we have received a multitude calls from people
inquiring about certain affects that overcome them while driving with the
air conditioner running. These affects included extreme drowsiness, memory
loss, and not being able to concentrate on driving. At first, these seemed
like something that would happen infrequently, but then we started
receiving hundreds of calls about this same thing. We decided to find out
what the problem was and our results are horrifying!
You might be asking, "Ok, what did you find?"
Well back in the 1980’s a global corporation, Akson Technologies
Initiative (ATI), designed and made certain parts for cars, and all the
car manufacturers would buy these parts from them. Well, this company was
suffering from internal corruption which eventually drove the company
bankrupt in 1994, resulting in all of its designs and parts up for grabs.
ATI being a respected company, automobile industry quickly bought up all
the designs. This company had a flawless reputation so everyone wanted
them. Little did anyone know that the company’s air conditioner design
was severely flawed. No one looked into this because of the company’s
reputation, and no one would have ever though to. Our investigators
discovered that the air conditioning system in cars made from 1985 until
1998 has dangerous, if not deadly, flaws in it.
ALL MODELS OF CARS HAVE THIS DEFECT! This is due to the fact that all of
the auto companies bought their parts from ATI and still use their design.
After rigorous research and testing, we have discovered that the exhaust
in these cars will leak into the A/C unit and mix with the Freon inside.
When these two compounds mix together, they create a toxic gas called
Dichlorodifluorocarbonmonoxide (The short name for this is Cl2F2CO). This
gas has more affects than the people who called us could ever realize! It
may be the NUMBER ONE cause of Alzhiemer’s disease and lung cancer!!! As
well as the ones above, symptoms of inhaling this gas are short term
memory loss, possible long term memory loss, difficulty waking in the
morning, coughing, bloodshot eyes, irritability, depression, and many
others which would be too extensive to list (For a full listing, go to our
website). Out of the 5000 volunteers who we asked to test, 3571 had
developed lung cancer, 420 had developed premature Alzheimer’s disease,
567 had developed both, and the remaining 589 suffered from partial memory
loss. All 5000 also reported recurring pneumonia.
THIS INDEED A DEADLY PHENOMENON!!! The more you drive your car, the more
you are at risk. Cars with over 100,000 miles on them are very dangerous.
You may sometimes notice a white gas resembling water vapor blowing out of
the air vents in your car. This is the gas in its more concentrated form.
DO NOT KEEP DRIVING!!! Stop the car for about five minutes to give the
system time to expel the concentrated gas. Even if you do not use the air
conditioning, the gas can still leak into your car. As stated before, it
was poorly designed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is serious stuff. Have you noticed the dramatic
increase in Alzheimer’s disease and lung cancer since 1985? We have.
Send this message to all your friends and family and let them know BEFORE
they step into their cars again.
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