Not to be outdone by the Taco Bell vigil...

[Ron M.]

California is now considering the following...

A California court case could turn every cup of coffee here into a jolt of reality on the risks of cancer.

Under a state law, cancer warnings already follow Californians when they enter the lobby of apartment buildings, drive into parking garages and sit down at restaurants. They also pop up on products including kitty litter, ceramic plates and black licorice.

Now, a state judge in Los Angeles is expected to rule in the coming months whether coffee should be labeled as carcinogenic under the three-decade old law, which is meant to warn Californians of potential harms.

Guess I'll be ordering Black Rifle coffee in the future...no warning labels, must be safer!

 

[DoubleAdobe]

This reminds me that I found an empty cigarette pack on the road recently while checking my mail box.
It was a Mexican brand of cigs, but oddly the logo or brand was tiny, maybe a 1/2 tall, all the rest of the graphics and language, in Spanish of course was talking in explicit terms of smoking causing impotence.
There was a graphic of a cigarette featured front and center where the cig had burned down about 2/3 of the way, but the ash was still attached and hanging down in a suggestive way considering the numerous warnings.
I mentioned this to my son, who has a green-card fella working for him that smokes and he had not seen this model, but had seen some with pictures of miscarried fetuses and another with mice with hideous cancerous tumors. All with matching super-descriptive writing.
This is in Mexico, which is rather surprising to me.
Evidently, California and NY do not have a monopoly on this sort of thing.

 

[Absalom]

Actually, compared to the rest of the civilized world, the US is way behind when it comes to warning us of lurking dangers, at least according to “activists”.

The European approach is somewhat charming. Who needs big words like “carcinogenic”, that most people can’t spell anyways?

 

[Ron M.]

I haven't seen any packaged (or otherwise) marijuana products for recreational use, so will they include the Prop 65 message on them? I predict that one day even the prop 65 labels will have a second label attached stating the first label contains carcinogens.

 

[chaparrito]

Since when is coffee carcinogenic? Is it only carcinogenic in CA?

 

[Iggy]

I wonder if packages of MJ sold in CA will have a label saying it a federal offense to possess this stuff?

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...I heard yesterday that Maxine Waters thinks Taco Bell is the Mexican Telephone Company...

 

[the ringo kid]

...I heard yesterday that Maxine Waters thinks Taco Bell is the Mexican Telephone Company...

As Yoda would say: "Surprised not, I wouldn't be ."

 

[rwsmith]

I'm staying out of CA....

...because EVERYTHING causes cancer there. I bought something that was one solid piece of plastic and it had a warning that said it caused cancer in California. I'll et if you bought a gun it would have cancer warnings on it. There may be possible petroleum products that are known to cause cancer in CA.

 

[walkin jack]

Well I can assure everyone, even those that have to live in California, that coffee does NOT cause cancer. If It did Miss Pam and I would have perished decades ago. I mean it. During summers and mild weather we kill a 12 cup pot every morning and lots of times we'll have half a pot with dessert if it's kinda special.

In the winter on a cold nasty day that keeps us in the house all day the pot stays hot until the pot we make after dinner is gone.

The only thing I know for sure about the effects of coffee is that it can prevent divorce. Long as we can both get that first cup down within minutes of waking up the honeymoon will continue.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that living in California caused cancer.

 

[Protocall_Design]

I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that living in California caused cancer.

I'm not sure about cancer, but it does seem to cause insanity.

 

[oberon]

Cancer, huh?
Keep in mind that everybody who ever came down with cancer was an air breather.
And nearly all of them were water drinking fools as well.

Ya can't make this stuff up......

 

[the ringo kid]

Well I can assure everyone, even those that have to live in California, that coffee does NOT cause cancer. If It did Miss Pam and I would have perished decades ago. I mean it. During summers and mild weather we kill a 12 cup pot every morning and lots of times we'll have half a pot with dessert if it's kinda special.

In the winter on a cold nasty day that keeps us in the house all day the pot stays hot until the pot we make after dinner is gone.

The only thing I know for sure about the effects of coffee is that it can prevent divorce. Long as we can both get that first cup down within minutes of waking up the honeymoon will continue.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that living in California caused cancer.

One thing it DOES cause (at least those with weak tummies like I have) is a long stint in the restroom.

 

[cybermgk]

Since when is coffee carcinogenic? Is it only carcinogenic in CA?

It is when you drink 87 gallons within a 45 minute period of time.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Warning,being alive is hazardous to your health!

 

[Roadtrash]

Ain't none of us getting out of here alive, 'cept astronauts and they always come back.

 

[Onomea]

Actually I think I read an article recently saying that coffee helps prevent cancer.

Yep, overall, sounds positive. Ya just gotta drink six cups or so a day, which is no problem for many of us: Can Coffee Lower Cancer Risk?

 

[American1776]

Years ago, I had a friend from Serbia when I was a graduate student. He was smoking from a pack that he had bought from Serbia. It was a blank pack, that had large black letters: "Smoking will kill you".

It was strange to see that.

 

[BC38]

Heck I drink a couple of quarts of organically filtered water every day.
Every drop of it gets filtered through a basket of ground up coffee!

They say that caffeine is a diuretic and causes your body to actually loose more water than what you get from drinking the coffee.

That can't be true - because if it were I would've dried up like a prune decades ago....

 

[jtcarm]

I don’t live in CA, but every time I buy something with the label “This product complies with California...” I have to wonder how much extra I’m paying for that piece of life-saving info.

I still don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I use the men’s room in a place that serves alcohol and get treated to the warnings about drinking while pregnant.

Remember the McDonalds coffee suit? Hot coffee is...hot