Life expectancy increases, increasing population with 80-year record number of non-smokers, genetic factors, autoimmune activation, and a brief mention of PM2.5 particles.
Saved you a read.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
82 points (100.0% liked)
Fuck Cars
14415 readers
1105 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
brief mention of PM2.5 particles.
So tyre and brake dust, wood fires/stoves, badly-controlled industry, and so on. Don't underestimate this stuff. Replacing the burner with a heat pump really eased my asthma, so lord knows what it was doing to my lungs.
tyre and brake dust
Fuck electric cars, too. They are not the solution to the crisis we are in.
How so? What's up with electric cars?
E-bikes are freaking awesome, especially with some proper infrastructure strewn about.
I bought a portable air filter/purifier. I'm not convinced the carbon sheet is grabbing that much of the truly bad stuff but at least the particulates should be caught in the main filters. My house is pretty small and just scooping the kitty litter makes a noticeable dust cloud in the sunlight.
I should point out the article OP linked didn't mention PM2.5 directly, but one of the articles this one linked to did; focusing on women's health specifically. They did not cite tire and brake dust specifically, not to say it is or isn't a factor, but briefly touched on an all-encompassing "environmental" catchall and moved along. It was not discussed more than a passing mention.
They did not cite tire and brake dust specifically
No, I mentioned it, after checking that it's still one of the main sources of PM2.5.
But not in The USA, since ‘The Crazy Don’s first-term,
As I have only recently adapted my belief in wanting to just worry about living as healthy as possible as long as possible, to what predictively expected of both & what was actually happening & whay? Also need to know what the factor of expected-predictable possible life expectancy & more importantly quality of life is & how failed to reach both, even if still increasing in both. That is not good,
probably from secondary smoking, carcinogens in your home, like radon, sprays,,,etc.
Air pollution, both from cars and from gas stoves, is also a big factor.
Absolutely not second hand smoke not in more than a one off, that is a scapegoat for pollutants. Radon, sprays, exhaust, yes.
You get lung cancer they go through the list, oh you are around someone that smokes? There it is, case closed. There is no pushback on it either like there is from blaming pollutants as a cause.
Probably dying of less other shit before they get old enough to get lung cancer.
The article mentions that this is especially occurring among younger people, in their 30s and 40s.
seems like its the same for colon cancer as well, and breast cancer, which are often more aggressive than the typical ones you get in your 50-60s yo
thats for smokers, people in thier 30s and 40s are getting the non-smoker kind of cancers.