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To: television is just wrong; rb22982; listenhillary
The only reason people are so damn paranoid about mercury is because a bunch of liberals told them that any expposure would be lethal "You broke a thermometer! Call out the HAZMAT crews! YER GONNA DIE!!!

The amount of mercury in a compact fluorescent is so miniscule as to be almost insignificant. About the only way you would get mercury contamination (notice I did not say 'poisoning') would be if you were to EAT one.

At which point I think you would have bigger issues to worry about.

163 posted on 11/11/2007 10:27:47 PM PST by uglybiker (relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: uglybiker

Bingo! Wonder how many of the naysayers here are sitting happily underneath the Americium 241 in their ionization type smoke detector.


167 posted on 11/11/2007 10:52:14 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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