Thanks, CR. Agree with those who question how "safe" a "little" bit of dioxin is. Husband, who has a master's in public health, says that dioxin is very controversial, safety very much open to debate. As for asbestos, darnit, you just can't get it anymore. I never bought an asbestos trivet for my gas stove, I never bought asbestos gloves, and now, they can't be had for love or money.
On the other hand, I've worked for a plaintiff firm that handled a lot of asbestosis cases, still have copies of a lot of the documents that were hidden away back in the 1920's and 1930's, just as documents on addiction to tobacco were hidden. I can see how urban legends get started, it doesn't take many incidents like those to make one not only distrustful, but gullible.
I was a law clerk at the asbestosis firm, the lawyer I worked for described visiting our biggest client, who was dying of pulmonary complications of asbestosis, he drowned in his own lung fluid. It took a long, long time, days and days, he was conscious for most of it, sitting up in a chair. |
