What is the reason behind California cancer warning labels? Literally everything seems to be causing cancer. I just bought a few s2s maple boards from a local lumber supplier and each one had a sticker saying it’s known to the State of California to cause cancer. A maple board? There’s no treatment or paint on it. It’s just a milled and poorly planed piece of lumber.
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Because California will fine the ever living crap out of any company that doesn’t have them on it whether it originates in California or not, regardless of if it could actually cause cancer or not, or even if it’s products are sold in California or not. I believe that California has actually argued in the past that you could potentially get cancer from heavy metals exposure by handling cut lumber. Yes, really.
You also need to realize that California has a ton of extremely low information voters that take many claims like this at face value and never once do question them, which has created a regulatory environment where many people who do not know near as much as they think they do actively campaign to add more and more stuff to those lists. Since California’s government is also in a perpetual state of deficit spending, these fines also make a substantial amount of revenue for the state.
So it’s part blatant extortion by the state of California, part misguided campaigning for further restrictions of certain voters in California.
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