Re: You can't just wash that asbestos right out of your bed

"Walter Driedger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Mark Probert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Peter Zavon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > Sure it is.  X exposure increases your risk of cancer by Y%.  We may
not
> > be
> > > able to provide you with precise values for X and Y, but that
> relationship
> > > is clear.
> > >
> > > If it were not the case, everyone who breathed a single fiber would
> > develop
> > > cancer without fail; and that clearly has not happened.
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> > But there are those who have a miniscule exposure who have developed
> > mesothelioma.
>
> And there are those with even a miniscule exposure who have fallen down
> stairs.  And even some who got run over by a bus.
>
> The post initiating this thread was telling us how huge amounts of
asbestos
> dust were all over the place.  You are telling us that musicale exposures
> "can" cause cancer.  I can't put these two statements together without
> concluding that we must all be dead by now.  Either that, or at least one
of
> the statements is grossly exaggerating the dangers.  Probably both.
>
> Getting back to your statement -- There is not a person in North America
who
> has not had a 'miniscule exposure' to asbestos dust.  and every one of
them
> has died, or will die, of something.  I would dearly love some real
> information on which I can base rational behaviour, not hysterical BS.

My statement stands as written. It was provided to me by an environmental
exposure expert during the course of investigation an asbestos related death
claim.