THE BEAT GOES ON
Hey, kids, bad news! Rock and roll gives you cancer. Well, not rock and roll per se, but the vinyl they press the records on. See, the plastic manufacturers use a gas called vinyl chloride to produce polyvinyl chloride, the plastic, and according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety, vinyl chloride gas has been causally linked with a rare form of liver cancer which has been showing up with increasing frequency in German plastic workers who were using PVC in manufacturing.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Rock 'n' Roll Couses Cancer
Hey, kids, bad news! Rock and roll gives you cancer. Well, not rock and roll per se, but the vinyl they press the records on. See, the plastic manufacturers use a gas called vinyl chloride to produce polyvinyl chloride, the plastic, and according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety, vinyl chloride gas has been causally linked with a rare form of liver cancer which has been showing up with increasing frequency in German plastic workers who were using PVC in manufacturing. Since it seems that direct exposure to" the gas itself isn’t necessary to contract the diseaase, and since the disease takes years ' to develop, it will be quite a1 while, according to authorities, before it is knowrrijjf whether vinyl chloride harm j extends to people who handled vinyl products.
Let’s see, that means re-J cord store owners will go first, then disc jockeys, and^jj let’s not forget those poorj women in the pressing plant...
Ed Ward
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