No, not the lamps...just magnetic style ballasts, they are being replaced by the new electronic "ballasts" for energy efficiency, green planet crapola..blah-blah-blah ( Really, take a look down the Ballast section at Lowes or Home-Depot)
so when you break a CFL you have to call & report yourself to the EPA Nazi's
Seriously though, if they break a CFL or a fluorescent lamp in a school, they have to call it a hazmatt situation & get a mercury remediation contractor to clean it up... Foot note.. Congress has on the docket to "flush" the CFL "mandate" ( which like Europe was to ban the sale of standard Incandescence lamps in the USA) due to concerns of mercury contamination of the environment..Ironic isn't it?
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So Instead of yelling "FIRE" in a crowded movie theater, now you can yell " I have a 100 watt CFL and I'm not afraid to use it...YAHHHHH"
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