The hamburger meat you buy at the grocery store on a plastic tray is sitting on polystyrene. Further, your house is filled with polystyrene products, since most polystyrene is used to make durable goods such as television cabinets, appliances, and furniture. One third of all the plastic around you is polystyrene. Everyone knows what gasoline is, but most people don't realize that it is one of the most dangerous substances we come into contact with in our daily lives. Gasoline is a witch's brew of organic chemicals, many of which are toxic, but whose major danger is that it is an extremely flammable substance.
People die regularly from gasoline.
They die horribly in fires ignited by gasoline in many different ways. People use gasoline as solvents to clean parts and die when a careless cigarette or a spark ignites the vapors. Open containers of gasoline catch fire in garages and workshops when vapors reach pilot lights. We all drive around with 10-20 gallon bombs of gasoline or diesel fuel in the fuel tanks of our vehicles. These bombs sometimes go off in automobile accidents that often cause people to die in accidents that would have otherwise survived.