ONE OF THE MORE PROMINENT warning labels in the modern consumer world reads as follows: "SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy." It is a harsh caution, but smoking cigarettes hasproven to be so dangerous to one's health that the government forces cigarette companies to advise potential customers against using their very merchandise. A warning of this magnitude is clearly reserved for products that are extremely harmful and veryaccessible to the public. Therefore, if there existed a product that was potentially as harmful as, and certainly more ubiquitous than, cigarettes, clearly it too would be worthy of such a warning. However, this new warning may come from some unlikely sources-office chairs and living room couches.
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