ABSTRACT
As Hunt (1989) pointed out nearly two decades ago, individual lifestyle practices such as drinking, smoking, dietary habit and exercise have long been public health topics, while the public health effects of car use have been neglected as public health issues. It is not surprising that the health effects of automobility have not been seen as a systemic problem. Car transport is naturalised and embedded in everyday life – psychically, socially, culturally and materially – and a pro-car ideology minimises its troubles (Freund and Martin 1993).
