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George Inman teamed with General Electric to create a practical fluorescent lamp, sold in 1938 and patented in 1941 That's right these have been around for over 65 years.
The CFL is nothing more than a Compact Fluorescent Lamp! Getting the idea? It's the same stuff inside, same vapors, same mercury! Same risks and potential for being a hazard if one was broken.
Now the same tubes we all grew up with, and work under and went to school in the same buildings that used these, are somehow especially dangerous? Plus people are finding reasons why things we already knew about fluorescent lights, are somehow a new discovery? "do not use with dimmers" We've known that since before most of us were born.
I agree that three pages of regulations on how to handle and dispose of these is nothing but one more impossible big government waste of time. But lets be realistic. These are nothing but a fluorescent tube with a small transformer attached, and small enough to screw into a light fixture.
Warning! The sky IS falling. There's an average of an inch of new dust and dirt that accumulates every 100 years in the wooded plains. It comes from the sky. 
(research this if you think I'm making it up. It's true.)
Each year nearly 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth from outer space. Now, the first successful chronological study of extraterrestrial dust in Antarctic ice has shown that this amount has remained largely constant over the past 30,000 years.
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