There's no such thing as "dirty electricity". The stuff about night time is stupid, too - don't sleep with the lights on? If you live in a city like I do night is almost as light as the day anyway. Isn't that why so many women have weird menstrual cycles nowadays, because the night isn't just lit by the moon?
"He emphasised that the study did not prove that using eco-friendly light bulbs late at night or overnight resulted in higher breast cancer rates than using filament bulbs, and that it remained an unproven theory." Even this article admits that.
"As if the danger to our health by using the CFL?s isn?t enough, the bulbs also contain mercury.
When they break or of disposed of improperly, exposure to this toxin is guaranteed." There's no danger apart from the mercury, so disregard the first sentence. To avoid mercury exposure, handle the bulbs carefully and dispose of them properly. You understand that by "break" they mean physically smash and not just stop working?
"Things Not to Do!
- Do Not Use Vacuum Cleaner
- Do not walk through broken glass
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why would anyone do that
"And our environment? This is where mercury laden CFL bulbs do their most serious damage to everyone of us. This is the same environment that our hordes of?Greenies? are so concerned about dying from global warming. But unknown to our greenie friends, already there are hundreds of millions of disposed CFL bulbs that have contaminated personal garbage cans, fleets of garbage trucks (spreading their toxicity near and far), and garbage disposal sites, that are doing irreparable damage to our ground water, except when such garbage is burnt; then, mercury is released into the very air we all breathe. "
That's why you're meant to take them to the tip, like all electronic waste. If you live near an IKEA, they have disposal bins there (as I do and I don't have a car, that's where I dispose of them). And as they last for a very long time you hardly have to do this ever :)
The stuff about flickering and migraines - this is only true with older bulbs and with the strip lights. These flicker at a rate humans can detect, sometimes even one you can actually see. So they can mess with your eyes and make you feel ill (it's nothing permanent, though!) Modern CFL bulbs flicker far too fast for it to have any effect. I am sensitive to flickering lights and the modern bulbs have no effect on me, seriously.
Please, stop worrying! There are dangerous things out there which people are too trusting of, but this is not one of them! :)