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> What if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases?

Then buy CFLs? They help keep toxic mercury out of the air from burning coal.

Do you seriously believe CFLs emit any mercury, or are you trolling?

When broken, absolutely.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp

I've broken one bulb in a decade. But by being an early adopter and using them for more than a decade I've prevented hundreds of times as much mercury from entering the atmosphere.

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