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Most of the gardening implements, and most of the cheap shower heads in my local home improvement store say they cause cancer. I assume people buy them anyway, or the store would stock something else.

So are these drugs with carcinogens of more concern than the other stuff? Should we be more concerned about the other stuff?



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All of my fishing weights and some lures have these warnings. It’s because of lead. I certainly don’t put them in my mouth and neither should you.

Shower heads are very concerning. Never seen those warnings.


Lead isn't particularly known as a carcinogen, but a neurotoxin. I guess it might be, but is it "known to the state of California"?

The things I noticed that almost all had California warnings were shovels, rakes, etc. I don't really know why these would need to have lead in them, if that's what it was.

I did buy a shower head, and I did buy one without the warning. But, I also thought - maybe this one has as much or more carcinogens as the cheap ones, but it doesn't have a label simply because it's not sold in California?


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