Cancer-causing chemicals were suddenly said to be everywhere: in water, in food, in packaging.

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Scientists have also said that one cannabis cigarette contains the same amount of cancer-causing chemicals as five containing tobacco.

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Last year the state of California added the commonly used flame retardant TDCPP (chlorinated Tris) to its list of known cancer-causing chemicals.

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That's where the goofy recipes come in dozens of them circulating on the Internet and beyond all claiming to keep the cancer-causing chemicals at bay even in well-done meat.

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These New Yorkers have seen other communities in neighboring states like Pennsylvania run over by an industry that promised them heaps of cash, but instead the communities report groundwater contamination, contaminated flow-back waste, road-ripping truck traffic and clouds of cancer-causing chemicals.

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