Healthy travel cherishes life, kills and hurts when driving by car [Pic]

Some people reduce the number of cigarettes when driving for safety, but there are also a few who do not smoke. When smoking on long distances, smoking when traffic jams, smoking when traffic lights, and smoking when feeling depressed. However, most of the riders do not know, smoking in the car, how much harm, the following will tell you.

Harmful one: can cause serious carbon monoxide poisoning

Because his family lives in Guangzhou and works in Qingyuan, Mr. Hu often drives on the Guangqing Expressway and often drives night trains. He said that he always used to smoking a cigarette when he was driving on the highway. He said that smoking can refresh and even relieve fatigue. “In the winter, when you close the windows and open the air conditioner, do you have to smoke?” After listening to the author’s question, Mr. Hu said, “Yes, I smoked into a habit. After I turned on the air conditioner, the smoke was pumped away. It does not matter.".

Mr. Xu, who is driving on the main road every day, admits that he is an out-and-out smoker. He smokes very hard, especially if he is always in traffic jam every day. When he is depressed, Mr. Xu will be handcuffed. Cigarettes, a haze of smoke. “Do you know the danger of closing the windows in the winter and smoking after turning on the air conditioner?” For the author’s question, Mr. Xu smiled and said, “Knowing a bit, smoking itself will pollute the environment and smoking in the car will affect the vehicle. There is definitely no advantage in itself. However, I think that if the air conditioner is turned on, there will be circulation in the air and it will be better."

During the interview, many owners thought that it was no big deal to open the air-conditioner to smoke in the car. I took a close look at the streets and found that there were a lot of people who had closed the windows in the car during this cold winter.

So, does smoking have any harm in such an environment? Is the air conditioner eliminating smoke? Dr. Zhang Xing, from the People’s Hospital of Qingyuan City, said that when the vehicle is in a closed state, the car engine itself will produce harmful gases such as carbon monoxide, which will flow into the vehicle body and endanger human health. If the “smoker” still smokes in this situation, then the concentration of carbon monoxide in the car will be more than 30 times the normal value. This will lead to dizziness, fatigue, nausea and other symptoms, and serious may also occur Poisoning.

Dr. Zhang revealed that he had encountered patients with carbon monoxide poisoning caused by smoking in a closed car for a long time. Because carbon monoxide was a colorless, odorless, non-irritating gas, the patient was not aware until the time when consciousness barriers appeared. The car stopped on the road and was discovered by the traffic police to be taken to the hospital in time to save a life.

Harmful 2: The yellowness of the vehicle interior is a strange thing for smoking.

Mr. Gu, who drove a taxi at a trucking company in Qingyuan, drove for five or six years. Recently, he found that the car always emits an unpleasant odor, and many facilities in the car are dark yellow.

Dr. Zhang believes that this is strange smoking. Mr. Gu is a standard “drug addict” and smoking is an indispensable part of his life. Of course, smoking in the car is also common. In cold winter weather, the outside air pollution is also more serious. Mr. Gu used to close the windows, open air conditioners, and then smoke, which can eliminate smoke and heat.

Dr. Zhang said that if the intake mode of the air conditioner is outside the vehicle (external circulation), harmful gases may also be discharged outside the vehicle; if the air intake mode is selected as the interior air intake (internal circulation), then The situation is even more serious. The increasing amount of harmful gases will quickly spread to all corners of the car under the "help" of air conditioners. The large amount of fumes produced by Mr. Gu’s regular smoking are attached to the inner wall of the air-conditioning system's pipeline, and the air conditioners produce a long-lasting odor. In addition, the air-conditioning system is equipped with dust and pollen filtering devices to filter and purify the air entering the air-conditioning system. However, this device cannot completely absorb the harmful gases produced by smoking. On the contrary, the large amount of smoke generated during long-term smoking Instead, the normal life cycle of dust and pollen filter cartridges will be shortened. At the same time, the interior of the car will be "smoked" slowly and yellowishly. To solve car odors, the best way is to replace the evaporator. However, replacing the air conditioner evaporator is not cheap.

Dr. Zhang told the author that, in fact, smoking in cars often leaves unpleasant odors, and some fungi and bacteria can grow under the floor mats and crevices. At this time, it is best to give the vehicle a complete "sauna", which is to fill the vehicle's interior with high-temperature steam. After it has been steamed once, the dirt attached to the surface can be wiped off. After repeated three times, the bacteria and bacteria were removed by wiping with a clean water added with a bactericide, and finally completely rubbed with clean water. After this program is done, it needs to be air-dried. It must wait for the water vapor to completely disperse. It usually takes more than two hours and the prices are relatively expensive.

Harmful three: increase maintenance costs of air-conditioning systems

The author has found out that many countries now have legislation on prohibiting smoking in public places. The smoking places of the “smokers” were once again greatly reduced. They chose to smoke in the carriages, and they increasingly became an alternative to smoking in public places. However, everything is relative, and after leaving it alone, what is left behind is not only slowly yellow interior decoration and difficult-to-remove car odors, but also increases the maintenance cost of the air-conditioning system. There is nothing wrong with it. One profit.

Not only that, secondhand smoke is more harmful to flight attendants than smokers. The sedan itself has a small space, and the concentration of harmful substances caused by smoking increases. The data shows that the smoke formed by burning one cigarette per cigarette needs to be replaced by 5 to 6 times of air per hour in a 30-cubic-meter room. For narrow passenger cars, because most of the current car installations are ordinary air conditioners, they cannot filter and remove ultrafine particles such as benzopyrene. Harmful substances will adhere to the air supply system of the air conditioner, making it more difficult to remove secondhand smoke. .

≥ According to recent statistics from a used car dealership abroad, smokers’ cars are more likely to depreciate in the used car market and are on average 20% lower than other used car prices. As the smell of cigarettes in the cab is not dispersed for a long time, most car buyers would no longer want to buy the odor. Second-hand car dealers have to cut prices to sell used car of smokers. The dealer said: "In this sense, smoking not only damages the downfall of the occupants, it is not conducive to driving safety, but also allows the owner to "purse" when selling the vehicle."

In China, used car dealers usually carry out vehicle preparation. However, due to cost considerations, only a few inexpensive cleaning agents are used for car odors and interior renovations, and the air conditioning system will not be cleaned too much. This also led to the fact that after a few months of vehicle sales, the effect of cleaning agents gradually receded, and part of the residual odor would gradually spread out from the air conditioning system or the interior. Only by going to a professional 4S shop for vehicle saunas can these odors and harmful substances be completely eliminated, but the high costs virtually increase the cost of car purchases.

In addition, smoking also smokes black roof ceilings. In the used car market, some cars with poor interior and odor tend to be priced at two or three thousand dollars less than the new car with a clean interior. If the owner is accustomed to smoking in the car, the smoke ring will be difficult to spread around in the vehicle space, accumulated for a long time, the ceiling will be smoked into a tan, and smell. In order to prevent smoke from being left indoors, some owners will lower the left side window while driving or parking and take the left hand of the smoke out of the window, so that it will be a swift and vomiting. Smoke marks appear on the A column.

An insider familiar with car care told the author that, first, he dared not open the window. Smoking in the car requires a window, but after the window is opened, the dust on the outside is easy to get into the car and dirty the interior. At present, the price of washing the interior of the Qingyuan market ranges from 200 yuan to 1,000 yuan, and it costs more money. not worth. If you want to repair the interior, the price may be higher, and if you do not make up, it will affect the appearance. Second, smoking does not open the window, affecting the body Jiankang. Because of the closed nature and small space in the car, it will make the pollutants easier to gather, which will seriously affect the air environment in the car. According to tobacco control clinic experts, when someone in the car smokes, the concentration of carbon monoxide in the car will be 30 times that of normal time. It will cause prolonged dizziness, fatigue, nausea, and other symptoms for long periods of time. At the same time, the toxic gases such as formaldehyde and benzene contained in the smoke will adhere to the car, which will affect the health of drivers and occupants for a long time.