THE BEAT GOES ON

Hey, kids, bad news! Rock and roll gives you cancer. Well, not rock and roll per se, but the vinyl they press the records on. See, the plastic manufacturers use a gas called vinyl chloride to produce polyvinyl chloride, the plastic, and according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety, vinyl chloride gas has been causally linked with a rare form of liver cancer which has been showing up with increasing frequency in German plastic workers who were using PVC in manufacturing.