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“Timmy… try and imagine a world without ASBESTOS”
TIL asbestos’ kryptonite is jet fuel.
Can’t melt steel beams though
So even this ad knew that building was unsafe as fuck.
What happens when we can solve the cancer problem? Asbestos going back into everything again?
the “cancer problem” wrt asbestos is that when it breaks it forms microscopic airborne needles that travel into your lungs and turn them into scar tissue. i don’t really see a solution to that. it’s like radon; it’s always a risk having it around.
It may be possible to solve in spite of that.
It’s the old blue whale question. As animals get larger, they have more cells, so they should get more cancer, so an animal as large as a blue whale shouldn’t exist. There is something, or possibly many things, about blue whales and other megafauna that seems to reduce the incidence or mitigate the effects of all cancers.
I actually think it’s unlikely that we will find some single miracle cure for all cancers, but there are some reasons to think it might be possible.
Doesn’t they have several cancer supressing p53 genes? That was a theory a while ago IIRC and I guess their immune system is better at detecting and eating cancer.
Sharks does like not have cancer at all too which is interesting.
Again, the issue is the scar tissue. Even if it didn’t develop into a cancer it will give you nasty COPD, gas exchange doesn’t happen with scarred lung tissue. Look at silicosis, potters lung, popcorn lung, and the plethora of other occupational diseases that are caused by particulate matter damaging lung tissue for examples of what asbestos would do without the cancer
Again,
You say “again”, but you’re arguing something different from the other person.
They were saying that the scar tissue will forever be a cancer risk, and that is the thing that I was discussing, how it is possible that it may not matter what the source of cancer is.
You are saying that the scar tissue is bad enough by itself.
It’s just a completely different topic.
Cancer is not the only thing asbestos can cause. There’s even a name for it: asbestosis.
1977 in California was when asbestos started to be banned from residential housing products, such as popcorn ceilings.
More generally in the US: https://www.eurofinsus.com/environment-testing/built-environment/resources/recent-news-blogs/blog-the-history-of-asbestos-regulation-in-the-us/
The OP ad was part of the industry’s counter-PR campaign.
Well yeah, the hand written but at the bottom says “Asbestos magazine” like there was an audience who just couldn’t get enough asbestos gossip and trends. Or asbestos crafting ideas for kids. Maybe some pithy editor who highlights asbestos fan letters with ideas for using asbestos for work and leisure.
It’s like satire but it’s unironically on the nose so it screams propaganda.
Great context!
Thx
In the 80s, lol.
80 years after the modern medical journals documented related diseases (if you decide to ignore that Roman scholar two millennia ago).
Pedro Lombardi Filho Wanda Maria Risso Gunther Ednilson Viana
This article updates data on consumption of chrysotile (white asbestos), in the global and national context, and presents an estimate of the amount of MCA in use in the country; …
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