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When it comes to economical printing and crisp text, it's hard to beat a laser printer. They'll spit out thousands of sharply defined pages on a single toner cartridge before needing replacement, all while hardly making a sound (and only dimming the lights a little). However, those benefits apparently come at a cost: your health. A new study from Queensland University of Technology indicates that laser printers emit clouds of fine particles when they're in use, particles that are similar to "cigarette smoke and motor vehicle emissions."This means they're incredibly small and can get deep into your lungs and ultimately your bloodstream. Given that similar particles have shown to be factors in lung cancer, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to open a window the next time you're printing out that manuscript of yours ... assuming you ever manage to write more than a page. Maybe you should just stick with poetry.
From Engadget
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Subscribe to commentsjaneJun 11th 2008 8:22PM
A lot of computer users today (including myself) have a laser printer. Laser printers offer good quality and are very fast printers. So, it is a good technology. That said, might it be that it is a technology that has side effects on our health? Laser printers spew out large amounts of particulate matter into the air which can be harmful when breathed in. Like cigarettes' smoke are harmful too to our health. So we must avoid in getting close to printers especially while printing or else we are getting close to our death...
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JanaAug 6th 2007 3:57PM
Well then, I propose laser printers be moved 20 feet from the entrance to offices and taxed to the max. Why should they be allowed where smokers aren't? But then, nothing is fair to smokers these days.
daveAug 6th 2007 5:10PM
Crap. I have been smoking while sitting on the laser printer.
LindaAug 9th 2007 8:12PM
Jana, I'm with you 100%
JerrryAug 9th 2007 8:34PM
Jana keep the good work up
diademAug 9th 2007 8:30PM
Of course nothing is fair for the smokers and rightly so. Non-smokers shouldn't have to put up with a nasty habit that affects our health just because someone else chooses to smoke. I can't wait for the day that smoking is banned from all public places!
KathrynAug 9th 2007 8:30PM
Jana, Dave, Linda, maybe we should organize for the same rights as a lazer printer. And don't you think that you do your best creative work WHILE perched on a lazer printer with a smoke in one hand and a cup o' java in the other??? I know I do.
TheresaAug 9th 2007 8:36PM
Where do people come up with these studies?? Did some scientist just decide to see if laser printers were harmful too our health? I just dont get it.
suzieAug 10th 2007 2:35PM
fat.
tugawugahAug 10th 2007 10:02AM
diadem-wake up, the issue REALLY ISN'T about smokers!!
dave/kathryn- you should be on LAST COMIC STANDING!! LOL!
anyone know exactly HOW MUCH printing you have to do before you are affected??
YvonnaAug 9th 2007 8:45PM
I think that laser printers should be outlawed.I have spent my whole life trying to stay away from smoke and cigarettes, so I won't get lung cancer. Now you are telling me that my office in endangering my health more than smoking a cigarette!?!Health consious people like myself will agree with me. Come on science, at least make a safe laser printer!
JoeAug 9th 2007 8:46PM
I want to have unprotected sex while smoking, drinking, eating some fried chicken, and printing pictures of people doing drugs.
ChrisAug 9th 2007 8:50PM
doesn't it seem like everything is bad for you lately? I figure everything in moderation...hell, we're all going to die anyway, so live it up while you can...you never know when your time is UP
ginaAug 9th 2007 8:54PM
I agree with Jana.
AndyAug 9th 2007 8:53PM
Jana, we sure don't want to be "unfair" to smokers. What exactly are they owed for spewing their fumes into the air around the rest of us and throwing their trash all over the ground? You would think common sense and courtesy would make bans and regulations unnecessary, but the vast majority of smokers don't exhibit those qualities when smoking. As with any special interest group, if you don't police your own, the whole group suffers the consequences.
Col BillAug 9th 2007 8:55PM
You gotta die sometime. Caesar (Shakespeare) said, "A coward dies a thousand times. A brave man dies but once." Fear is merely pain in the future and should be ignored.
carmenAug 9th 2007 9:05PM
I am a smoker , but I am always considerate of those who are not.What gets me is the NON-smoking health conscience people who DIS my smoke, yet have no qualms about sitting in a restuarant WITH or beside someone who's had 3- 4 drinks,then leave and be on the same road as these DRUNKS lol
DeniseAug 9th 2007 9:00PM
LMAO Dave!!!!!
ShirleyAug 9th 2007 9:01PM
I agree with Jana and Chris. Before long they will be telling people not ot have sex, as they might die??? What next??
It seems funny to me, I've seen people sit in bars breating in everyone elses smoke, smoky everywhere, yet most are the ones complaining about smoke in our other environments??
carmenAug 9th 2007 9:06PM
To Andy.....i am a smoker, non drinker, who always considers those who don't smoke........even I don't like cig smoke in my FACE.......what irks me is the NON-smokers who do not think twice about sitting in a restuarant with people having numerous DRINKS, then leaving at or about the same time the "drunks" are on the same road!How dangerous is THAT to your health???