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We all know to what extend the Health Departments have gone to to make
people aware of the hazards of smoking.

To my horror, I found that I could have contacted silicosis through
adding Diatomaceous Earth to my swimming pool filter.

The product I have used sports a 11kg box with 82mm high red letters
giving the distributors name as Olin Chemicals of 120 Ridge Road,
Stamford, CT 06904, USA. There is a warning further down the box in
much smaller letters asking you to read the back which is in even
smaller letters still. The biggest letter on the back is 4mm high.

Then it goes on to tell you that you have to wear a mask and stir the
powder in water to avoid the silica contained therein. It states that
the silica is classified as a carcinogenic. That most people will
recognise as being an item giving you some form of cancer.  In this
case it would be lung cancer.

It is suggested that the american goverment make these people toe the
line laid out for the tobacco industry - ie. make the health warning
at least as easily visible as the name of the product. 

It is most unfair that people can be subjected to such a dreadful
disease without a warning which is adequate that people may see that
without using reading glasses.

Just what is the good of giving up smoking and then have that kind of
rubbish sold to you without the sort of warning that smokers get.