The other type of fluorescents are called "cold cathode" ...
*These are long life

Well, relative to the service life of incandescent lamps (1000 hours
more or less) they have a long service life. The collection of
tricks for starting them, though, includes small amounts of
radioactive gas with a few years half-life. Twenty years from now,
an attic incandescent lamp will come on every time, your attic
CCFL won't.