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Home » News from Thailand » Short news » Air in Bangkok full of carcinogenic PAH
Air in Bangkok full of carcinogenic PAH
Bangkok ranks 13th in terms of cities in Asia experiencing severe PAH air pollution. These polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons can cause cancer in humans and animals.
PAH are produced by incomplete combustion or carbonization of various carbon-containing materials. These include fossil fuels, foodstuffs and wood. PAH are formed, for example, when coal is gassed, when food is burned (barbecuing), when fuel is burned and it is also present in cigarette smoke.
“The average amount of PAHs in Bangkok is 2,2 times higher than the safe limit,” said Associate Professor Siwat Pongpiajun, of the NIDA Center for Research and Development of Disaster Prevention and Management.
The NIDA research center analyzed the risk of cancer from PAH. For this purpose, samples were collected from seven measuring stations that measure the air quality in Bangkok in the period 2006-2009.
The safe limit for PAH is 250 picograms per cubic meter of air. “But the average in Bangkok is 554 picograms,” Siwat said. The highest PAH values were measured in station at Keha Chumchon Din Daeng.
Source: The Nation
Now I am very curious about the 12 Asian cities that are “above” Bangkok.
http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/51430/asia-has-the-world-rsquo-s-most..and read it..
Thanks for this link Chris.
However, the list on that website shows something else: the concentration of PM10.
And then suddenly Bangkok is in 44th place.
I want to know how dangerous the air is at both Bangkok airports. I want to avoid Bangkok as much as possible. The NL embassy should move to a less unhealthy place. Unfortunately, I have to go to that embassy every year for an income statement. The airports are important for going to (and from) Phuket and Chang Mai, among others. And to various foreign countries of course.
By the way, most beaches are dangerous with an easterly wind. The beaches are mainly located on the west coasts, and Thai people have a bad habit of starting fires. Fortunately, the wind in Thailand is usually (south) west.
Sometimes entire provinces are covered in smoke. “Are you living healthy?”, someone once asked me. “How could I?” was my answer, “Where should I flee to live a healthy life?” Not to mention what I have to eat. Well, whatever, not on the streets of Bangkok.
I would think it would be a shame if we had to miss Lije sooner.
So 1 tip that can extend life is that you send that income statement by post to the Embassy in Bangkok from now on.
With this you also help others to extend their lives because you don't need transport there.
Thanks for the tip. Now I have to come up with something that I don't have to go to Bangkok for a certificate of still life (which I need annually).
For proof of life you just get on a bike and let the immigration service stamp it, you don't have to go to Bangkok for that either.
Watch out that they don't hit you on the bike, dangerous.
That's not in line with my instructions. Achmea in particular wants proof of being alive on the original paper from the embassy (nothing, no immigration office, is not in their dictionary). Cycling to the immigration office is indeed quite dangerous in my case. You obviously don't know the situation on Koh Chang. It would be a good test (uphill, downhill, through hairpin bends and that on a certain narrow road) whether I am still fit. And speaking of the air pollution in that little Switzerland: the production of the carcinogenic PAH is where the taxis and other unfiltered poison gas spreading machines overspeed enormously.
You can be nonchalant about (including lung) cancer, but that doesn't solve anything.
Just last month, the World Health Organization warned that global air pollution poses a much greater threat to public health than previously believed.
Air pollution kills more every year than AIDS or malaria. According to new estimates, 3,5 million people die prematurely every year from indoor air pollution, and another 3,3 million people from outdoor pollution.
Moderator: comment on the article. You are not supposed to tell a story about your concerns about air pollution in general. There must be a relationship with Thailand.