Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Might as well start smoking ...

As if we dont have enough to worry about a recent study shows that laser printers have an adverse effect on lungs. Great! In fact, according to the article the effect is similar to that of second hand smoke.

Almost one third of laser printers emit tiny toner paricles that when inhaled casue respitory problems. Yikes

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2 comments:

Tom said...

A whole new meaning to black lung disease .. but now, I suppose you also could contract lung disease in magenta, cyan, yellow, ...

Shawn said...

of course that depends on the printer ... it could be red, green, or blue