According to: NPR

The Environmental Protection Agency and some large business, including Wal-Mart, are aggressively promoting the sale of compact fluorescent light bulbs as a way to save energy and fight global warming. They want Americans to buy many millions of them over the coming years…

However, the bulbs contain small amounts of mercury, a neurotoxin, and the companies and federal government haven’t come up with effective ways to get Americans to recycle them.  Also, when they break, there are reports that some clean up the breakage with their bare hands.  There has been no warnings as to correct clean-up procedures for these bulbs, or safe recycling plans.  

“The problem with the bulbs is that they’ll break before they get to the landfill. They’ll break in containers, or they’ll break in a dumpster or they’ll break in the trucks. Workers may be exposed to very high levels of mercury when that happens,” says John Skinner, executive director of the Solid Waste Association of North America, the trade group for the people who handle trash and recycling.

Skinner says when bulbs break near homes, they can contaminate the soil.

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin, and it’s especially dangerous for children and fetuses. Most exposure to mercury comes from eating fish contaminated with mercury,

Some states, cities and counties have outlawed putting CFL bulbs in the trash, but in most states the practice is legal.

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According to: The Associated Press 12-10-2007

The U.S. Supreme Court held in the Kimbrough v. U.S., 06-6330, case, in a 7-2 vote by the justices, that federal judges do have discretion to impose shorter prison terms for crack cocaine crimes.  This will help reduce disparity in crack v. powder cocaine sentences.  (Typically, the different forms of cocaine are consumed by different races, thus, the disparity in the sentencing guidlelines punished the crack cocaine offenders much more so than the powder cocaine offenders — this in turn leads to the impression of the law punishing one race more harshly than another race). 

   However, this case, the Kimbrough case, did not present the justices with the ultimate question of the fairness of the disparity in crack v.s. powder cocaine sentences.

Best policy would be not to do drugs in the first place.  

According to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency):

The most dangerous asbestos fibers are too small to be visible. After they are inhaled, they can remain and accumulate in the lungs. Asbestos can cause lung cancer, mesothelioma (a cancer of the chest and abdominal linings), and asbestosis (irreversible lung scarring that can be fatal). Symptoms of these diseases do not show up until many years after exposure began. Most people with asbestos-related diseases were exposed to elevated concentrations on the job; some developed disease from exposure to clothing and equipment brought home from job sites.

 

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy dvd From studies of people who were exposed to asbestos in factories and shipyards, we know that breathing high levels of asbestos fibers can lead to an increased risk of:

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*  Lung Cancer,

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*  Mesothelioma (a cancer of the lining of the chest and the abdominal cavity); and

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*  Asbestosis (lungs become scarred with fibrous tissue)

 

The risk of lung cancer and mesothelioma increases with the number of fibers inhaled. The risk of lung cancer from inhaling asbestos fibers is also greater if you smoke. People who get asbestosis have usually been exposed to high levels of asbestos for a long time. The symptoms of these diseases do not usually appear until about 20 to 30 years after the first exposure to asbestos.

According to the NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health): 

“Asbestos” is a generic name given to a fibrous variety of six naturally occurring minerals that have been used for decades in the development of thousands of commercial products. The term “asbestos” is not a mineralogical definition but a commercial name given to a group of minerals that possess high tensile strength, flexibility, resistance to chemical and thermal degradation, and electrical resistance. These minerals have been used in many products, including insulation and fireproofing materials, automotive brakes and textile products, and cement and wallboard materials.

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The asbestos minerals have a tendency to separate into microscopic-size particles that can remain in the air and are easily inhaled. Persons occupationally exposed to asbestos have developed several types of life-threatening diseases, including lung cancer.