In article , Stormin Mormon wrote:

Some of those photons have been shown to cause cancer. I'd take the bulb to
the local hospital, and ask them to safely dispose it.

I hope you are being sarcastic!

For equal level of illumination, most grades/forms of daylight have more
carcinogenetic photons than light from CFLs including the damaged one in
question has!

Oh, and hospitals are places that have a high rate of "proper disposal"
of fluorescent lamps! In large part due to using so many of them!

- Don Klipstein )