Neither the smell of diesel fuel nor the smell of auto exhaust (in the open) used to bother me, but since catalytic converters, I can barely stand to be next to a car at a stoplight on my motorcycle.
More than a minute or so and I start getting nauseous.
What is coming out of there, anyway? Has anyone checked, or did they just test for the smog gasses the converters were designed to break down?
Well, as long as there are smokers, they don't have to research! Just blame any illness on the smokers. It's all Bush's fault. Get my drift? LOL
Precisely my point as well.
The real damage done by this, though, to smokers and non-smokers alike, is that while the medical industry pursues the tobacco boogeyman, all other sources of carcinogenic compounds, and even fundamental research into cancer itself are given second rank to the tobacco jihad.
Medicine, as a discipline, and the consumers who rely thereon are all getting the shaft, but the money flows where the BS grows.