Just when I thought boiling strings was weird

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I was doing some internet research for work today and I came across something I thought was the weirdest thing I've ever seen on the internet since the string boiling affair [!--emo&;)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'wink.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
Apparently, earplugs can cause cancer:

[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]When the pop band assaults the ear canal in a too high volume, the partner snores or machines at the work station buzz, earplugs may protect ears. But every third product contains massively harmful substances[/quote]

The whole text (in German) can be found here:

[a href=\'http://www.oekotest.de/cgi/ot/otgp.cgi?doc=29922\' target=\'_blank\']http://www.oekotest.de/cgi/ot/otgp.cgi?doc=29922[/a]

Apparently, some earplugs contain halogen-organic substances which can cause cancer.

I don't know what to think. During the course of the past few weeks, I did research on building material of various forms. Judging from what I read and learned, I can't even enter a room anymore without a high risk of developing cancer.

The sad thing is that if these facts I researched get known to the broad public, a hell of a lot of people will take this too seriously and panic. Of course I would favour the removal of substances that cause or can cause cancer from material, but get real: If every substance that is capable of causing cancer would really do so to everyone who inhales even just an atom of whatever is contained in their emissions (I'm talking paint, for example), then the world would have lost way more than half of its population during the course of the past 50 years.

On the other hand, I am indeed shocked by reading about what kind of stuff can indeed cause cancer.

Earplugs. Way to go.
 
Wait earplugs, as in Headphones? Just not sure. All I know, si that from December last year, i use Head-phones more than regulary and I'm still alive...
 
It gets even weirder (translated from [a href=\'http://www.schadstoffberatung.de/fliesen.htm):\' target=\'_blank\']http://www.schadstoffberatung.de/fliesen.htm):[/a]

[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]In the past, radioactivity of ceramic tiles has been heavily discussed. This was triggered by foreign intensively coloured products with glazing or colour containers which contain uranium. Health damage due to radioactivity is rare in kitchens or bathrooms tiled this way, because people stay in these rooms for a comparatively short time. In general, the deciding factor for health damages is the distance people keep to radioactive tiles, and the duration of people staying there. [/quote]

No words.
 
Actually if, you're using an old screen, it's very likely the radiation emmisions will in time cause cancer [!--emo&<_<--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/dry.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'dry.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
yup, everything gives you cancer so why even bother worrying? my girlfriend won't find this to amusing since she wears earplugs to sleep.
 
This is just odd...

[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--](...)As is known today,  poisonous phenol formaldehyde is gassing out (of glass wool) (...)
Carpenter von Rickenbach rejects any kind of responsibility for the dumping of his bad job on isolation. And the glass- and stone wool mafia threatens to go to court if the names of their companies are made public.[/quote]

And I threaten to puke all over the toilet if I keep reading bs like this.
 
The title of this website translates as "a white ingrain wallpaper".
See for yourself...

[a href=\'http://www.weisse-rauhfasertapete.de\' target=\'_blank\']http://www.weisse-rauhfasertapete.de[/a]
 
[!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin-The Ancient Mariner+Oct 1 2004, 01:08 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(The Ancient Mariner @ Oct 1 2004, 01:08 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]They say everything causes cancer these days.  They even say smoking causes cancer!
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Are you kiddin' me??!! [!--emo&:blink:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/blink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'blink.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Exactly what in the sigarettes is it that causes cancer? I, myself use a scandinvian form of tobacco, snus. Not quite sure what it is in English, but I believe the french name is "Tabac a priser". Does anyone know if this causes cancer?
 
I don't really know what in the ciggarets that causes cancer.

As for SNUS, many scientists belive that it causes cancer, but there is no evidence of it. For some year ago, an the back of the snus-pakages it stood: "This product causes cancer" or something like that, but they have changed that now to: This product is harmfull for your health and may cause cancer". So, it maybe doesn't cause cancer, but it's still not god for you, which in itself isn't a very good argue to not do it [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--] .
 
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