Cancer in California

My Garmin 2610 box has the now ubiquitous California cancer warning on it;
warning box panel

"This product, its packaging and its comonents contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm."
Garmin Proposition 65

How useful are these warnings when they've become diluted by the multitude of dire cautions from seemingly innocuous products? The guideline of having to prove it causes no more than one additional case of cancer in 100,000 individuals, in a 70 year lifespan, is probably why most companies just choose to put the warning on their product labeling instead of going through the process to prove it's "safe".
Has it become just joke-fodder nowadays?

Wingerr,

Many places of business and retail stores now have the cancer warning on the door of entry. So, I guess you can walk up to a clerk and ask for the cancer isle? I think I stated it somewhere here some time ago, I am expecting some notification to be stated some where to the nature of: "Caution: The Surgeon General has determined that living causes death; proceed with caution. "

[quote "Caution: The Surgeon General has determined that living causes death; proceed with caution."

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Only one sure solution for that- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

They have this cancer warning on Christmas lights now. Something about the wires, and that you're now supposed to wash up after hanging the Christmas lights.
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Time to go eat some cancer......oh! I mean lunch. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif

there's a
Caution: Cancer
sign,
in the sun
and in the shade too

Do you think that "they" are afraid and/or trying to prevent widespread asbestos type lawsuits in the future?

Not being a "radical tree-hugger", though being a person of common sense and caution...I believe that our modern lifestyle, pleasures, luxuries, etc...are a result of our developed/developing technology - which of course is sooooo based on chemicals, their products/manufacture...we're killing ourselves! It's just a fact of life/death.

I almost expect to see a big green and white sign next to the interstates leading into California with the following text:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre> WARNING:

This state contains chemicals known
to the State of California to cause
cancer and/or birth defects or other
reproductive harm.

Enter with caution.</pre><hr />

this can of paint i have here (purchased in Maine) also has a warning that it's contents are known to cause cancer.....


in California.

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SERIOUSLY. *lol*