I say education is the key. You could do and use whatever after you get informed.
From what I read, most people who against using the CFL and light tube have two main reasons: 1) the chemicals it carries (mercury and many other), 2) CFL emits light close to daylight which affect your body clock.
We used light tube since I was kid. Back then, no one tell us that it contains mercury inside and it needs to be dispose properly. As a kid, I even purposely break the old tube for fun. On the other hand, I do know mercury is poison, but when a mercury thermometer breaks, I even touched the mercury, how silly as a kid.
(Mind you, the mercury is in liquid form from a thermometer while it is as vapor inside the CFL. Not a fair comparison in any way.)
Now, info is out there to tell people CFL contains such and such, and you need to handle them carefully. We now should know returning old bulb and tube to the recycling facility and not your garbage bin. You should be all good unless you have an accident. If you "do" managed to break a CFL at home, what are you going to do? That's mercury vapour right at your home, and not at the power plant. I once saw a broken one at HomeDepot and I have to tell myself that nobody is going to die because of it. 
A thing that has old history doesn't have anything to do with its safety, especially nobody know there are unsafe at the beginning. But I agree that CFL will still be around for decades, and people should learn how to handle them now not later. (HomeDepot is also another place for recycling, FYI.)
For the bluer light from CFL, I have no comment whether it related to the body health. There are too many things in our modern world that affects our health. Maybe CFL is one of them, who knows. Personally, I don't like the bright white light in my resting area, that's all. I do replaced a few of my bulbs to LED already. More expensive but I have less concern that way.
- Brian |