TONER & ASTHMA

Here's an interesting thread I came across in another forum.

I have been concerned about the toner from Xerox copiers for years. A
friend that worked in an office told me that when they repainted the
office they removed a thermostat from the wall. The difference in
color from the wall that had been exposed to flying pigment and that
behind the thermostat was jaw dropping. I suspect that the toner is
non-organic and, like many of the compounds in cigarette tobacco,
might remain, if inhaled, in the body for some time.
This is speculation on my part. Maybe some here would have more
informed knowledge.

It's funny that you bring this up.

Before I went back to school to study law, I was a Medical
Anthropologist. I spent a year in Cleveland working with a group of
doctor's doing pulmonary research. We idenified a new sort of asthma
we called "Xerox Worker's Asthma". Basically the toner from photo-
copy machines (practically identical to laser printers) becomes
aerosolized and inhaled by users. There are over 40 different
chemicals in toner that could be doing very nasty things to you. We
noted that those who use photocopiers for a living tend to get a form
of asthma.