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You'll only get cancer if you go to California and use them, although rare, you can get cancer if you use them and THEN go to California. ) That label has always cracked me up, I know what it means, and I know their labeling regulations are more stringent than the rest of the country. We used to tell our art teacher in high school that none of us would ever be able to go to california after using the glue with that label because we'd immediately develop cancer. It made her angry, but she was crazy. Ventilation with Oils is always a good idea, and avoid getting the paint all over you. I shape brushes and sometimes mix colors on the backs of my hands, but I use acrylics. As for condiments, I think you should still be fine. Nothing beats a hot dog with a big ol' blob of Hookers Green on top. (BTW Hookers Green is my absolute favorite color name, other than a select few crayola crayons)
My guess is a short in the smoke detector. If there is a faulty wire grounding out, causing the rapid. drain in the battery. Environment really does not have much to do with the batteries life expectancyunless you are in extreme cold or heat. dust would do nothing. I would have the proffesionals return and examine the Detector. if there is a faulty wireit would be kind of crappy if the thing that is supposed to be protecting you from fire actually causes one. Oh one more thing..maybe it is the Carbon Dioxide sensorthat may also be an option worth looking into as well.. Hope that gives u some more Ideas.good luck.
Artists have been using oil paint for hundreds of years. As far as I know none have ever gotten cancer simply from using oil paints properly. The warning labels are on the tubes because, if ingested into your body, you could get lead sickness, a minor form of poisoning. No remotely intelligent adult or even younger artist would eat oil paint from a tube. But a baby might try doing so because babies will put just about anything in their mouths. This is why leaded pencils are no longer used in elementary schools because young students used to suck on the pencil tips. The warnings are for child safety issues. You will not get lead poisoning, or cancer, from touching oil paint or getting any on your skin by accident. That is, as long as you don't lick your fingers to clean them or shoot any paint into your veins. Even if small amounts of artist oil paint was absorbed into your skin by accident you are in no real danger of ill effects. It would take a prolonged, continued abuse of the lead in oil paints over many years before you would see a negative result. As to fumes, yes, there are fumes when using oil based paints and if certainly wouldn't hurt for you to paint with some form of ventilation, at least a fan, in the room.
