Carcinogens are everywhere

Today I'm freaking myself out by reading about paint and paint dust toxicity. I'm mainly using latex paints, but then there's the asphalt, and the metallic paints, and they have pretty scary MSDS's. There is never NOT paint drying in my apartment, and with my lack of open-able windows (I have glass block windows) I'm becoming concerned that I'm going to gradually poison myself. And the paint dust that gets kicked up when I sand down the surfaces? Christ that stuff is toxic.

Why does everything that's fun or yummy have to be totally evil? really. wtf.