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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (172112)	10/7/2005 2:40:38 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

"...compared with asbestos poisoning which caused fatal damage for a few individuals." 9,900 in 2002 in USA. "The highly politicized controversy in Washington over asbestos litigation has overshadowed a quiet and directly related crisis in public health: an epidemic of asbestos-caused diseases in the United States that claims the life of one out of every 125 American men who die over the age of 50. Ten thousand Americans die each year -- a rate approaching 30 deaths per day -- from diseases caused by asbestos, according to a detailed analysis of government mortality records and epidemiological studies by the EWG Action Fund. Asbestos kills thousands more people than skin cancer each year, and nearly the number that are slain in assaults with firearms. The suite of diseases linked to asbestos exposure overwhelmingly affect older men." ewg.org

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