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Chlorine Causes WHAT!!!!?

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Ehizzle:
I had a guy call yesterday that wanted to hook up an ozonator to a softub. He was trying to tell me that ozone takes care of all the bacteria in your tub accept for one kind that you can use some kind of enzyme to get out. After going back and forth about having to use chlorine with ozone he got on to the "chlorine causes cancer" kick. He said he saw research where a rat that drank water with chlorine got cancer. At the end of the conversation I told my co-worker about it and he pointed out I forgot to mention to this guy that ozone supposedly causes cancer. Oh well.

Any of you dealers get people going crazy about chlorine and cancer?

Spatech_tuo:
Some day I expect they'll find that cancer is hereditary in white mice.

Ehizzle:
I heard the rat in question used 2000+ cel phone minutes every month also. I guess we will never know.

Brookenstein:
The rat was also probably from California and everything is known to cause cancer in the state of California.

Dr. Spa™ Ret.:
some years ago there was a study that proved carrots caused cancer. of course to duplicate the test in humans you'd have to eat 20 pounds of carrots a day for 3 years.......... and live in California  ;D

Actually though, I believe what your customer is talking about is that there's a very rare bacteria (might be an algai.... old guy here, bad memory), when chlorine kills and oxidizes it, what's left behind is a carcinogen. The issue though is that you HAVE to ingest it for it to be a problem.

REMEMBER, if it weren't for chlorine more than 85% of the world's population would not have clean safe drinking water.............. to the point that it's estimated that without chlorinated drinking water the world as we know it today would be rather sparsly populated.

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