This sign in my hotel in California

    by Ganessa

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    1. workhard_livesimply on

      Those are everywhere in California. Restaurants. Clothing tags. Packaging on Merchandise.
      *Cancerfornia*

    2. Pretty normal warning in California, the whole state has strict regulations on things like this

    3. Californian here.

      Mold is problematic state wide and asbestos used in the construction of buildings throughout the United States and pretty much everywhere contain these harmful chemicals and agents.

      Add legacy lead paint if you’re traveling the south and staying at hotels.

      California is just one of the only states that requires informing anyone staying in potentially hazardous environments.

      Ironically, in this late stage capitalist mecca, that’s pretty much every building. Including every home, rich or poor.

      And if you’re “new” home is built with anything ordered from China, you have a lead and PFA chemical filled home too. Welcome to the club.

    4. This Yelp review is even better

      >You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

      – D. Henley

    5. If I remember correctly, in Cali, you have to test something to declare is free of cancer-producing agents, or put a label telling it “might” cause cancer. Since testing isn’t as cheap as putting a label, most of the products just slap a label on and are free of any responsibilities.

    6. Beneficial-Focus3702 on

      If California could put that on the air you breathe they would. Literally life does this.

    7. Advanced-Possible-29 on

      Literally everywhere in CA. The bar for needing it posted is too low and it defeats the purpose. When people realize that everything causes cancer, they stop worrying about the major causes.

    8. Couldnotbehelpd on

      People act like California has magic cancer causing parking garages and stores. No babe, we just have to label it. You guys have the same chemicals.

    9. VinceClortho138 on

      At this point, it might be easier to label the things that don’t give you cancer in the state of California.

    10. Prop 65, it’s legally required at every entrance to every building that doesn’t pay for an expensive and expansive inspection to determine that the opposite is true. Since its so hard to prove something **doesn’t** have these properties, people just pay for a small sign at each entrance.

    11. Your phone contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

      This post contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

      This comments also contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

    12. As everybody that’s a native Californian would tell you, it’s known by the state of Cancer to cause California. It was a dumb ballot measure we should really nuke from orbit. 

    13. I’m pretty sure that is also posted under the welcome to California road signs at the border

    14. Prop 65 if I remember correctly? It’s from a few elections ago, people have to now put up these signs in their establishments if they contain anything on a certain list. Most buildings have these things so now there are signs everywhere

    15. The way people should really interpret this is: Yes we know this may cause cancer we don’t care and we are not going to try to find alternative methods so suck it up buttercup. Instead we make it a joke and say California is to zealious.

    16. The sign itself causes cancer and needs its own smaller sign which needs its own smaller sign infinitely like a Russian doll of signs

    17. These signs are ubiquitous and have lost all meaning. To me, it’s like the signs at the gas station warning people not drink gasoline.

      I was staying bayside in San Diego when I saw the best hotel sign ever.

      There was a placard above the phone in my room that read:

      If you are experiencing the feeling of moisture or the sounds of wildlife please try closing the window before contacting the front desk.

      This made me lol.

      Apparently, it was so common for guests to complain about the sounds of pinnipeds and the moist ocean air that they had to put these signs in every single room in the hotel.

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