So which of your family or friends are you OK to watch die of lung cancer? Or heart disease? Or suffer with asthma?
Oh, right. So book me a ticket to the nearest habitable planet with clean air then please.
Some of those are a choice. And the choices come with consequences. For many, the benefits outweigh the minuscule risks. Diesels are a real threat to urban pollution, as evidenced by continual failures to meet roadside air cleanliness targets. DPFs are one way to try and minimise their impact. Smoking is the same as removing a DPF... deliberately and knowingly polluting the air around you for others to breathe for a selfish personal benefit.
Yeah because the government really care about our health don't they? Like forcing newborns to be injected with mercury, putting fluoride in the water. They want to reduce world population, so why would they be concerned about our health? All they care about is ways to make money. They know DPF's are designed to fail, so they know people will remove them, and they know they can make money by fining them.
The new MOT regulations will just make it easier to find out who has had it removed, therefore earning them more money.