A new study shows that microwave popcorn fumes can cause a rare and fatal lung disease.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/04/AR2007090401415.html

I guess SmartPop! ain't so Smart after all.

Air popping tastes better anyway.

feel sorry for all those popcorn factory workers who have come down with the disease over the last few years..would have thought a popcorn factory job would have been pretty safe..

Not if you get popcorn popped in the eye!  That's why popcorn workers had eye care removed from their group benefits package... just too expensive.  Also as a corollary, popcorn costs have sky rocketed because it takes more time for one-eyed popcorn workers to prepare the corn therefore it costs more to make therefore my dog hates cats...