WARNING: This product (vacuum cleaner) contains chemicals known to cause cancer,

[JDPriestly]

9. Three comments about these seemingly absurd warnings:

1. Hard to say what quantity or dose of an environmental agent could conceivably combine with other environmental agents to "cause" cancer.

2. The State of California is telling people it knows if something contains some trace or significant amount of such an environmental agent but does not know whether it will cause cancer to the specific person contemplating its use.

3. The law is just a warning. The government is reminding people to be careful but cannot say what particular environmental agents a particular person should stay away from. And the government of California is not going to measure and conduct experiments on each agent.

Smoking is known for sure to correlate very highly with cancer. Using a Hoover, as far as I know, is not. The warning alerts us to the fact that we should investigate further. That is all. A little common sense, please.