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  1. A lot more about the Stony Brook study here, including the previous similar EU, UK and Canada studies, spectral diagrams of CFL, LED and incandescents and UV information, and associated skin disorders

    – and why light bulb regulations don't make sense, even to save energy, referenced
    http://tonn.ie/2012/07/new-study-on-cfl-uv-radiat

  2. How about your eyes ?…. I suffered from occular migrain headackes due to the harsh lighting

  3. Anders Hoveland says:

    Those spiral CFL bulbs make my skin feel sore after about 15-20 minutes, and they also strain my eyes. It feels like "snow blindness", and my eyes continue to ache for many hours afterwards.

    There are people claiming these bulbs give off less UV than the sun, but I do not really have any big problem being outside in sunlight, so this is obviously not true.

    I am more sensitive than most, but I would imagine all this added UV exposure is not going to be good for everyone else either. Dermatologists tells us not to stay out in the sun for too long every day, yet many people spend a large part of their day under artificial lighting, well into the dark evenings. Will skin cancer rates go up? Will the current generation become more prone to developing cataracts in their eyes when they get older? No one has the answer.

    This is absolutely horribe! Politicians care more about their environmental agenda than about our health!

  4. ewcollins says:

    What about the fluorescent tubes that have been widely used for decades? How are CFL's different from these?

  5. the only ones now allowed in Europe

  6. I read somewhere a few years ago, well, actually, it was a video, but i've read this too~~if one breaks, you're supposed to vacate the room, open windows…clean up with wet paper towels, don't vacuum as the toxic crap will go in there & then spew out thru the vents….i had these for a while & got rid of all of them. I don't see how they can be an improvement when years ago the fluorescent tubes were considered bad also. This is the same thing, maybe worse, with the mercury in them. And i think these can also increase the chances of cataracts in your eyes.

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