Re: [MV] Asbestos and asbestosis

From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 21:47:06 PST


The latest from OSHA is that asbestos is not that bad
for non-smokers but for smokers there is an 80 times
better chance of cancer.

Joe

--- Douglas Greville <dgrev@ruralnet.net.au> wrote:
> Jon
>
> > You need to remember where the majority of these
> cases come from.
>
> Maybe maybe not. My Dad died of Mesiophylanoma(sp?)
> he was a carpenter.
> Out here they used it in "Fibro" which is a wall
> cladding, both for
> wet areas (bathrooms etc) and exterior.
> The doctors told him it could have been caused by
> exposure at any time,
> not by gross exposure.
>
> In the last couple of years we have lost 2
> Electrical Contractors
> locally, (town of 19,000 people) with 22 full time
> Electrical
> Contractors, both to asbestos induced stomach
> cancer. All switchboards
> made in Australia until roughly 6 years ago were
> made out of a
> black bitumous like material with asbestos through
> it. Nobody knows
> whether it was from drilling fibro to install power
> points etc or
> from drilling the switchboards to fit fuses etc that
> got them.
>
> A former girlfriend of mine's father was an
> accountant, but he had
> asbestos exposure in the Western Desert (Egypt) in
> the Army during
> WW2, he died of it in the 1970s. Nothing to do with
> ships either.
>
> Oh, year, as to when it was discovered to be
> dangerous; the Doctors
> told us that the health effects of asbestos were
> documented from the
> 1890s in English medical literature. That's nearly
> 100 years before
> the common person was told it was
> dangerous........... draw your
> own conclusions as to why it took so long for the
> information to
> get out.
>
> As far as car brakes are concerned, the local auto
> parts place gave
> me a choice of disc brake linings for my Ford,
> 1) cheap asian import = asbestos
> 2) the current Aussie type, average cost = asbestos,
> 3) Asbestos free, premium cost (roughly triple).
>
> You can guess that I took option #3.
>
> In short, have as little to do with it as you
> possibly can.
>
> Personally I am paranoid about the stuff, I have
> seen what it does
> to a human being and only one word describes it -
> ghastly.
>
> Regards
> Doug
>
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