Don't stop drinking from your novelty glasses.

[enyawd72]

Good grief. Another idiotic media-induced panic started for no good reason.

Guess what folks? Do you know how many beer and soda pop bottles have painted graphics on them? It's the same thing as a painted drinking glass.

You see, the drink is on the INSIDE, and the paint is on the OUTSIDE, so you can drink away without fear of turning into a mutant.

I have used my glasses for years with no ill effects whatsoever.

[jimsmegos]

I for one will gladly join you in a toast using "Empire Strikes Back" glasses so long as I can get the one with Lando on it

[enyawd72]

I for one will gladly join you in a toast using "Empire Strikes Back" glasses so long as I can get the one with Lando on it

Right on brother...and if it's a Lando glass, it's gotta be Colt .45!!!

The finest malt liquor in the galaxy...

[neogelion]

I thought it was only King Cobra for Lando?

[SpaceCrawler]

The lead and cadmium that is in the paint on these glasses can (and Coke actually admits does) contaminate the hands, which can be ingested. Over time, cadmium will damage the bones and kidneys and lead damages the brain if ingested, particularly of young kids whose brains are still developing.

This is similar to when you have lead paint on your house and are doing construction, and you have to have it professionally stripped and contained. There's actually a real reason why you have to do this. Lead is extremely dangerous (as is cadmium).

The fear with kids and these glasses is that they may ingest the contamination. It's a real concern as it does cause damage over time.

Use your glasses if you insist, just wear some gloves, or wash hands thoroughly, and somehow make sure that whatever is on the outside of your glass (like water when washing it) never touches the inside of the glass (which seems an impossible task).

Sean

[cdhall]

So you say...

I have used my glasses for years with no ill effects whatsoever.

We will need an update from you in 25 years please.

[enyawd72]

The lead and cadmium that is in the paint on these glasses can (and Coke actually admits does) contaminate the hands, which can be ingested. Over time, cadmium will damage the bones and kidneys and lead damages the brain if ingested, particularly of young kids whose brains are still developing.

This is similar to when you have lead paint on your house and are doing construction, and you have to have it professionally stripped and contained. There's actually a real reason why you have to do this. Lead is extremely dangerous (as is cadmium).

The fear with kids and these glasses is that they may ingest the contamination. It's a real concern as it does cause damage over time.

Use your glasses if you insist, just wear some gloves, or wash hands thoroughly, and somehow make sure that whatever is on the outside of your glass (like water when washing it) never touches the inside of the glass (which seems an impossible task).

Sean

I'm pretty sure an occasional drink from a character glass isn't going to kill anyone.
Believe the media hype if you want to. The reason these types of stories cause such a panic is people have no common sense anymore. I seem to remember an entire generation of kids who played with lead soldiers and lived to tell the tale. We also rode bikes without helmets, could use a razor sharp hobby knife to build a model kit, played with BB guns, etc.
It's amazing we survived at all...

[cdhall]

Embarassing

It's amazing we survived at all...

My Mom and I were...discussing raw meat once I think it was. I said something about Neanderthal's and she replied "Yeah, look what happened to them."

[Gorn Captain]

I had lead and cadmium poisoning six years ago.
The damage is irreversible and lasting. But these heavy metals can also be carried by the wind, seep into water and soil, etc, so there's no escaping anyway....

[EMCE Hammer]

I'm pretty sure an occasional drink from a character glass isn't going to kill anyone.
Believe the media hype if you want to. The reason these types of stories cause such a panic is people have no common sense anymore. I seem to remember an entire generation of kids who played with lead soldiers and lived to tell the tale. We also rode bikes without helmets, could use a razor sharp hobby knife to build a model kit, played with BB guns, etc.
It's amazing we survived at all...

Some didn't survive.

A little lead probably never hurt anyone, but the cumulative effects of a little here and a little there affect different people in different ways. I don't want my kids having problems when they get in their 60s because I blew off safety warnings. As for the bike helmets - I guess you and I have a different view of what "common sense" means.

[SpaceCrawler]

I'm pretty sure an occasional drink from a character glass isn't going to kill anyone.

I think understanding the issue is good prior to making judgments that these stories are "hype". If you have one drink every 10 years from a glass, then sure, it probably will have no effect. However, that CLEARLY wasn't what the recall was about.

Read this Wikipedia article on lead poisoning. Very informative. Maybe you'll understand the concern if you understand the problem.

Here is a list of the known health effects of lead poisoning. It's HUGE.

Believe the media hype if you want to. The reason these types of stories cause such a panic is people have no common sense anymore. I seem to remember an entire generation of kids who played with lead soldiers and lived to tell the tale. I seem to remember an entire generation of kids who played with lead soldiers and lived to tell the tale. We also rode bikes without helmets, could use a razor sharp hobby knife to build a model kit, played with BB guns, etc.
It's amazing we survived at all...

As was said, lots of people did suffer from lead poisoning. There's a reason why we know it's dangerous, and that's one of the reasons- because people were actually poisoned. If you have evidence that no one ever suffered ill health effects from lead or cadmium, maybe you should call CNN or report your findings to a scientific journal. You'd cause an even greater stir than the recall.

I guess some people would be OK with depleted uranium in kid's toys too, because, after all, we used to ride bikes with no helmets.

Sean

[Sandman9580]

I'm pretty sure an occasional drink from a character glass isn't going to kill anyone.
Believe the media hype if you want to. The reason these types of stories cause such a panic is people have no common sense anymore. I seem to remember an entire generation of kids who played with lead soldiers and lived to tell the tale. We also rode bikes without helmets, could use a razor sharp hobby knife to build a model kit, played with BB guns, etc.
It's amazing we survived at all...

I agree!

Drinking glasses should have poison on them. Especially if you're going to give them to children who are still developing -- I mean, we're not talking about genocide here. Sheesh. All toys should have lead in them, too, because some of the kids who play with them will survive -- it's inevitable! 75% of children who've died in bicycle-related accidents would be alive right now if they'd been wearing helmets -- but who cares? I didn't always use one and I lived to tell the tale. I actually handed out X-ACTO knives for Halloween this year and said "Happy model-building!" Some of the parents got mad, but I told them it's not my fault if they can't use "common sense".

Anyway, I have to go now. Winter's coming, and that asbestos insulation isn't going to install itself!

[enyawd72]

I agree!

Drinking glasses should have poison on them. Especially if you're going to give them to children who are still developing -- I mean, we're not talking about genocide here. Sheesh. All toys should have lead in them, too, because some of the kids who play with them will survive -- it's inevitable! 75% of children who've died in bicycle-related accidents would be alive right now if they'd been wearing helmets -- but who cares? I didn't always use one and I lived to tell the tale. I actually handed out X-ACTO knives for Halloween this year and said "Happy model-building!" Some of the parents got mad, but I told them it's not my fault if they can't use "common sense".

Anyway, I have to go now. Winter's coming, and that asbestos insulation isn't going to install itself!

Very funny, and yet this is why Wal Mart doesn't even carry model kits anymore. No one under 18 could buy the supplies for fear of sniffing the paint and glue and/or stabbing themselves. Kids growing up in the 60's and 70's DEFINITELY had more common sense than they do now. Today's kids are too stupid to know how to properly handle a hobby knife, or paint, or glue, because they are so "protected" from everything.
I grew up on a farm, and at the age of ten could be trusted to carry and use a six inch pocketknife RESPONSIBLY. I didn't take it to school and stab anyone with it because "Duh, dat's what they do in da video game, dee-dum, dee-dum."

[SpaceCrawler]

Very funny, and yet this is why Wal Mart doesn't even carry model kits anymore. No one under 18 could buy the supplies for fear of sniffing the paint and glue and/or stabbing themselves. Kids growing up in the 60's and 70's DEFINITELY had more common sense than they do now. Today's kids are too stupid to know how to properly handle a hobby knife, or paint, or glue, because they are so "protected" from everything.
I grew up on a farm, and at the age of ten could be trusted to carry and use a six inch pocketknife RESPONSIBLY. I didn't take it to school and stab anyone with it because "Duh, dat's what they do in da video game, dee-dum, dee-dum."

You can't ingest lead or cadmium "responsibly".

While I agree that kids today are stupid (due to consumerism and anti-intellectualism being pushed on them wherever they go) we used to allow lots of things that were dangerous. There's usually a reason why we don't anymore. Just because you could have driven a Pinto around your driveway without it exploding, it doesn't mean that if you got rear-ended you'd be so lucky.

But I'm pretty sure Walmart doesn't carry model kits anymore because they don't sell in the numbers they used to. Why do I say this? Because they still carry all the products that you use to construct a model kit, just not the boxes of plastic themselves.

And, after all, they have no problem using slave labor in other countries to manufacture their goods, nor do they have problems with fighting against and weakening environmental laws and regulations designed to protect us and their workers in this country and other countries.

Sean

[EMCE Hammer]

I wonder if 'kids nowadays' don't have any common sense because their parents drank lead and sniffed glue and passed the effects on genetically. This occurred to me as I was pouring Brawndo on my lawn.