Thanks to the gov’t demonization of tobacco, people believe that exposure to trivial amounts of substances have grave consequences, as if it’s radioactive material or weaponized botulism toxin.
People naturally conclude that if one whiff of second hand smoke is “harmful” then exposure to anything else that might contain something harmful is just as deadly. This is also the irrational basis for most aversions to immunizations. The gov has brought this on itself.
In truth, if the turf is so harmful, you’d be getting cancer closer to the vehicle of exposure - skin cancer from scraping against it, or lung cancer from inhaling dust.
In fact, you’d be inhaling more “tire dust” just driving on the road or living near a busy one. Tires gradually wear out by being burned off from frictional forces. The resulting “dust” does go somewhere.
Nevertheless, before claiming turf or tires as a “cause”, it could easily be verified by performing an autopsy looking for such material deposits in their bodies.
Not likely.
All those people that work on a NASCAR pit crew should be dying off pretty quickly due to exposure from tire dust, I would think.
Vapors and dust are two different things.