Yes, it is true that there may be other things that are more dangerous to you than the occasional contact with and breathing in of solvents, such as auto accidents. Just because there are things that are more dangerous does not mean that one should not worry about the effects. DHMeieio, I understand your point, but the reality is that few people will ever redouble their efforts in car safety as opposed to spending the same effort on safely handling chemicals such as solvents. So a lot of folks will still be lax in the handling of chemicals and go about their business thinking to themselves that they are at more risk of injury in an autowreck and therefore blow off the risk posed by chemicals.
Where things get particularly troublesome is when a given individual has some sort of inability to deal with the solvents in their system. This may be due to a genetic predisposition, combined effects of multiple chemical insults (not just one type of solvent, but several), or even drug interactions where a medication you are taking somehow affects the body's ability to deal with the solvent insult.
Sort of like with lead poisoning or mechanical hearing loss, the process can be slow and the effects happen over a long period of time before getting to be really detrimental. Often, such effects occur so slowly that folks are apt not to associate the cause with the effect and hence don't do anything to correct it. Because they don't correct it and don't understand it, it just gets worse.
These days, with all the stuff known to help germinate cancer in the human body, do we really want to voluntarily introduce that many more like solvents?
