I think the wikipedia page downplays how often it's used to try to hurt or annoy cyclists, pedestrians, or anyone who looks liberal/foreign. It's not just anti environmentalists who do it, it's a general MAGA thing.
Half-burned diesel particulate is absolutely cancerous, it can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier and they're generating clouds of it, probably thousands of times more than what a modern 18 wheeler puts out in half an hour of driving. And they're doing it to someone breathing hard.
If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on the regional news, even.
The double standards around motor vehicles never cease to amaze.
No you wouldn’t. You’ve just described 2nd hand smoke which you can easily get hit with walking down any sidewalk in the US.
Smokers get cancer because they smoke tens of thousands of cigarettes. You won't get cancer because you kind of smoked .1 cigarettes. Also, the majority of lifetime smokers don't even get lung cancer.
A full range of scientific evidence, extending from the molecular level to whole populations, supports the conclusion that secondhand smoke causes disease. The scope of this evidence is enormous, and encompasses not only the literature on secondhand smoke but also relevant findings on active smoking and on the toxicity of individual tobacco smoke components.
356 links to supporting studies and works
Smoking blowing smoke in your face once is one time and outside. It's easily millions of times less smoke exposure than what you're referring to here.
You've had a short life with minimal exposure to smokers then.
Just the first thing that came up in a youtube search, there are thousands more:
I thought this was some shitty way of being "special", like a loud exhaust, but being able to turn it on and off to gas people is downright evil.
It's a purposely poorly-turned engine + accelerator control.
TL;DR: poor turning, and floor it (high RPM).
This video gives a pretty good overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTnnJ7xMv8
I didn't think people would be this shitty, but here we are.
Please provide a arXiv claim to back up your post or delete it from HN.
It’s always fascinating to run across the MAGA-style conspiracy theories on the far left, they’re ironically very similar.
“I get coal rolled every time in step on my bike!”
That's what people have told me. You are seriously underestimating how much some people hate cyclists.