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Ireland: Altar boys and girls are being exposed to danger, according to an Irish government minister, and it isn't the usual problem.
Jim McDade, who is a former family doctor, said the children were at risk because they inhaled the carcinogenic smoke produced when incense is burnt close by.
Here you have quite a thick billowing type of smoke. Sometimes you see the children with this instrument which is down normally around their ankles, and the smoke just keeps coming up,Dr McDade said.
And sometimes I cringe when I see them literally inhaling this, because sometimes there is an aroma of it and all I was trying to do was making people aware.
Which should worry Wiccans, and other incense-prone groups too. Irish minister links incense to cancer - BBC News, 22nd August 2003.
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In yet another example of the Irish losing their sense of fun, a Minister has instructed parents who burn incense to keep them away from children. It seems they may cause cancer. This, if true, explains a great deal. The... [Read More]
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1: Posted by: Larry Lurex | August 22, 2003 12:41 PM
I thought the original purpose of incense was to put you into a receptive hallucinogenic trance anyway, let alone cancer in later life.
Just me then.
2: Posted by: pril | August 22, 2003 3:21 PM
to a certain extent, the guy is right. Most commercially made incense has stuff in it- i think its called DHL or something similar- that can make you sick over time. It's used to make the incense burn longer. It's been discussed in the yahoo incense making forums a lot.
the solution is to make your own.
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