Cords causing cancer?

Ok so I just bought a Creative Zen Nano Plus to use for the gym and i'm going through the manual. On the page where it describes connecting the USB cord to the device and the computer, there's a warning at the bottom of the page that says:

Warning: The cord(s) included with this product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Wash hands after handling.

What's this all about? I usually pay attention to news but I've never heard anything about cancer causing cords and washing your hands after using them.

It's the state of California. They require almost everything to have that warning on it. I don't think it's anything to worry about, really. What say you Californicators?

I've been chewing on my Saitek joystick's lead ridden cord for weeks now, despite the california warning, and i dont notice anything...

but seriously, california would put warnings on waterbottles, cautioning people that it could causes drouning if they demanded it enough.

/dismiss

Well, with some leathers, it's necessary to give that warning. Any leather parts tanned in third world countries are likely to have tanning agents that have been linked to a lot of birth defects. Most cars don't use them anymore, but ya gotta be careful none less, especially with working out when your body is wearing itself down.

Something just occured to me. What the health risk differences between secondhand smoke and say.... incense smoke? or candle fumes/smoke?

Sorry for the tangent...I just looked over at the candles burning in the house where my tobacco is banned and I was inspired to think of things that we presume as harmless and innocuous that might in fact be dangerous.

Sorry for the tangent...I just looked over at the candles burning in the house where my tobacco is banned and I was inspired to think of things that we presume as harmless and innocuous that might in fact be dangerous.

i would say if those are the wife's candles and you wanted to ban them then yes, that would be dangerous!

Candles likely do not have nearly as many carcinogenic chemicals in them compared to cigarettes, but I'm just guessing. Incense is probably somewhere between candles and cigarettes.

I recall a recent study that showed incense smoke had lots of carcinogens, bad news stuff.

http://www.drlam.com/opinion/incense...

sh*t. Let's just stop eating food, drinking liquids, breathing air and buying EA products. Then we will all live to a ripe old age.

The living would envy the dead!

I'm waiting for California to mandate that reading the cancer warning itself has been linked to cancer!

Nosferatu wrote:

I'm waiting for California to mandate that reading the cancer warning itself has been linked to cancer!

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I suppose they're still trying to figure out how to label the sun...

I thought this thread was about trousers.

Welcome to California

*Warning: The state of California has determined that the state of California has chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Please use level 3 environmental hazard suit before entering.

Gdawg27 wrote:

What's this all about? I usually pay attention to news but I've never heard anything about cancer causing cords and washing your hands after using them.

And now for an actual answer...

I believe it's a reaction to new studies on volatile organic compounds. Everyone knows that paint thinner and other chemicals release nasty volatile chemicals into the air. But it's also been noticed that all sorts of common household materials release minute quantities of organic chemicals as well - more at first (e.g. the new car smell, the new computer smell), then tapering off to just trace amounts. But the problem is that these are not well studied yet, and it's not clear what they do to people after prolonged exposure, such as inside an office for 40 hours a week.

Ah, plastics.