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By Karlyn Caplan


Nearly everyone sense the importance of air quality inside our houses and outside our surroundings. How about the condition of the air inside our cars? The review made by the Dohring Company indicated that over 95% of the people representing the population were bothered by the air quality in cars.

Americans spend an incredible amount of time in their vehicle, an average of 1.5 hours per day.I have a friend who commutes to work two hours a day, five days a week. That corresponds to a five-day workweek.

Alarmingly, the air in the car is twice up to five times unhealthier compared to the air at home or in a workplace, according to most recent assessments. In any case, the car is just of lesser size and the space is more compact than your house or place of work and is more vulnerable to allergies linked to fungus and signs similar to sick building syndrome. Through air flows and aeration systems, fungi can distribute unhealthy allergens and microbes. Everybody in the car is sucking in particles of dust, greenhouse gases and fumes from car exhaust - besides formaldehydes, other similar irritants in the materials in the car from pets, food and cigarette smoking.According to Anders Lofvendahl, project manager at Volvo, "In hot climates, volatile hydrocarbons evaporate from plastics and textiles." These factors can completely worsen the condition of asthma and allergy sufferers, and produce an unhealthy environment for you and your loved ones. Also according to a study by The International Center for Technology Assessment in 1990, twenty three unrelated scientific investigations performed during the 1980's and 1990's showed that air contamination levels in cars normally reach concentrations that are dangerous to human health. Nearby monitoring stations used to calculate government air quality information showed results of indoor air in cars have more carbon monoxide, benzene, toluene (all cancer-causing agents), fine particle matter, and nitrogen oxides than ambient air. This fact was also stated in that study.

Envision this - each car and truck on the street draws in and blows out contaminated air - that air is in your vehicle. As you are traveling, that air is what you are breathing in continuously as long as you stay inside that enclosed, impure space.

There is no question that we feel affection for our dog, Bear. A Newfoundland breed, and weighs 135 pounds, he adores taking a ride in the car. Only dilemma is, other than the fact that he takes up so much space in the back of our small vehicle, he sheds and a lot of dander that he discards has an awful smell. Therefore, as a substitute for leaving him behind at home and moping, we had to find a device that can maintain the cleanliness and purity of the air inside the car. An air purifier that uses negative ions to get rid of impurities in the air can be plugged in your car through the cigarette lighter plug in, or placing a car air filter, or putting air freshener ionizers - these are some of the propositions.Keep the windows rolled up and the outside vent closed. Only point is - Bear can't enjoy the wind in his face!




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