The Null Device blog: Something else to sue the Catholic Church for

A claim has emerged from Ireland (where else?) that incense, of the sort used in Catholic churches, can cause cancer, with altar boys and girls being at particular risk from carcinogens in the smoke. Ireland, once the most fiercely Catholic state in Europe, is currently banning the smoking of tobacco in most public places.

There are 4 comments on "Something else to sue the Catholic Church for":

Posted by: mark
http://donotuselifts.net/
Sat Aug 23 11:19:27 2003

Sounds pretty dubious, but then, anything to get rid of incense...

Posted by: sam
www.humbug.net
Sun Aug 24 00:18:09 2003

that's stupid. they might as well stop anyone from creating fire and smoke anywhere in the world then because ALL smoke is carcinogenic.

Posted by: acb
http://dev.null.org
Sun Aug 24 17:43:52 2003

Then again, the fact that altarboys carry those censers which waft large quantities of smoke upwards, where they inhale a lot of it, should ring some alarm bells.

Posted by: Graham
http://grudnuk.com/
Mon Aug 25 16:04:15 2003

I would think that'd be the least of the altarboys' worries.

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