EVERY office building has used florescent light bulbs for at leats what...50 years? If all these so called health problems involving florescent bulbs were really true, we would have had widespread problems decades ago. Decades.
Florescents have also been widely used in residential kitchens for just as long. I’d wager a significant portion of the people that complain about the CFL mandate have florescent bulbs in their kitchen fixtures. What is the difference between that U shaped florescent bulb in your kitchen light fixture and the ice cream cone looking CFL’s? Nothing. Literally not a single thing. One is just a smaller version of the other.
Yes, I agree that the govt. overstepped its bounds by mandating the use of florescent bulbs, but spreading information about so called dangers that can so easily be proved false just by applying a little common sense is not the way to stop it.
A friend of mine bought dozens of the CFL bulbs then decided he didn’t like them, so he gave them to me. I can go CFL or incandescent, makes no difference to me, but my favorite light bulb is the FREE type.
Old-style long-tube fluorescent lights use a different technology that does not involve radio-frequency. But the ballasts used are too bulky to be used inside a light-bulb-sized unit.