Cancer Danger from Dry Cleaning

As Early Show national correspondent Tracy Smith points out, there's nothing dry about dry cleaning at all. Clothes are actually washed, in a solvent, one the federal Environmental Protection Agency calls it a possible-to-probable carcinogen, and you could be breathing it in, without even knowing it. That was what happened with Mori Mickelson and her husband, Danny O'Brien. The more they stayed inside their New York City apartment, the sicker they got. "I would get dizzy, I would get headaches, just feel nauseous," Mickelson told Smith. It turned out, Smith reports, that the air in their apartment was contaminated with […]