“WHY ASBESTOS?” 1970 ASBESTOS INFORMATION COMMITTEE PROPAGANDA FILM XD52424

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This film, "Why Asbestos?" was presented by the Asbestos Information Committee, displays the benefits and uses of asbestos in everyday products, and argues that the product is needed to prevent fires. The film was part of a propaganda campaign created by the asbestos industry in the USA and UK to push back against growing public and regulatory sentiment against the use of the product. The AIC and several other organizations were created in early 1970, just as the USA's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began looking into regulating the industry. The goal of the AIC and similar groups was to counteract the growing public attention to and government regulation of asbestos as a serious threat to workers and consumers, to shape public opinion and regulatory policy. Eventually the campaign produced results, with OSHA stipulating that asbestos could continue to be used in a wide variety of consumer products without any warnings about the danger of cancer. This was despite a rich historical literature on asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma dating to early in the 20th century. This is a Unit 7 Film and it was made in association with The Film Producers Guild Ltd.
This film opens with burning buildings and smoke billowing (0:23). Flame burning the side of a bag (1:06). Asbestos rock (1:33). Asbestos rock fibers (2:18). Asbestos rock fibers under a microscope (2:25). Single asbestos fiber (2:39). Scientific instrument/scale calculates PSI (pounds per square inch) (2:48). Scientific instrument showing asbestos fiber (2:56). Asbestos fibers washed with water (3:12). Pot with a fire (3:22). Cloth with asbestos covers a burning pot on the stove (3:26). Machine produces fabric with asbestos (3:28). Machine threads asbestos into yarn (4:08). Colorful long sleeved shirts (4:33). Machine pressing down on shirt (4:41). Asbestos cloth made on a machine line (4:47). Asbestos inside a steam valve (4:51). Pipes with asbestos (4:57). Oil heater (5:03). Machine weaves asbestos fabric (5:11). Welder wearing asbestos gloves (5:20). Steal worker (5:21). Glass worker in a suit made of asbestos fabric (5:30). Firefighters putting out a fire in suits made from asbestos fabric (5:41). The words, “Safety Curtain '' (6:14). Industrial faucet spewing water into a slush (6:26). Foamy substance mixed with cement (6:29). Asbestos cement (6:36). Boats on water (7:05). Siding of a building with asbestos (7:17). Roofs made with asbestos (7:24). Tunnel (7:45). Pipes (8:03). Building materials (8:08). Machine making a pipe with asbestos cement (8:13). Asbestos pipes (8:33). Pipe being lowered into the ground (8:57). Building with steaming pipes (9:04). Worker installing an asbestos cover (9:06). Industrial building (9:11). Roof of a pool that has been treated with asbestos (9:24). Man diving into a pool (9:46). Asbestos getting mixed (9:53). Asbestos pressed into smooth boards (9:56). Inside of a massive building (10:02). Inside of a supermarket (10:09). Ships (10:27). Asbestos in insulating boards on ships (10:32). Telephone (10:43). Large pipes (10:45). Asbestos board nailed into place (10:49). Cutting and drilling of asbestos boards (10:52). Clock on wall (11:07). Door opens to a room with a piano and sheet music (11:14). Bedroom (11:25). Piano and sheet music (11:33). Fire burning furniture (11:39). Fire burning down a building (11:46). Man with clip board observes (11:56). Fire consuming a home (12:09). Man standing on a ladder (12:16). Crane carrying logs (12:32). Crane (12:36). Asbestos bearing (12:42). Satellite (12:53). Rocket taking off (12:37). Jet pipe of a rocket (13:02). Aircraft engine starts (13:08). BAC One-Eleven plane landing (13:10). Propellers on a large ship (13:17). Ship propellor (13:29). Life boat storage rack (13:31). Trolley (13:35). Bottom of a locomotive (13:44). Gears on different machines (13:49). Dump truck (13:57). Man operating machinery (13:59). Steam rollers (14:00). Man presses a button (14:02). A machine moving rapidly (14:14). RPM gauge (14:22). Brake light (14:23). Machine gears catch fire (14:25). Cars moving on a busy street (14:28). Race cars on track (14:46). Morris Minor car (15:15). Car battery (15:28). Engine smoking (15:45). Morris Minor driving (15:49). Car battery catches on fire (16:00). Foot presses down on the brake (16:07). Car catches fire (16:17). Asbestos cloth puts out the flames (16:36).
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@sid2112 6 месяцев назад

To be fair, that stuff is a miracle material. To bad it'll kill ya, because it was incredibly useful.

@ew332 6 месяцев назад

So will breathing the chemtrailed air the US military and private pilots spray us with everyday.

@jamescooley5744 6 месяцев назад

As long as you can seal it, so the fibers don't come out, asbestos is not a problem. The UK use to make roofing panels and buildings out of it.

@rogerbartlet5720 6 месяцев назад

The stuff was used almost everywhere. According to the anti-asbestos propaganda, given it's toxicity most of the world should be dead or dying from it by now.

@Modeltnick 6 месяцев назад

@@jamescooley5744Asbestos shingles were very popular here after WW2. It was a binding agent for concrete and was pretty safe like that.

@teri2466 6 месяцев назад

@@rogerbartlet5720Just about everyone who mined it is. And plenty who didn't. YTA

@user-qm7nw7vd5s 6 месяцев назад

“Fiber so fine, that care must be taken to avoid inhaling them”. Interesting…

@fjp912 6 месяцев назад

If only it were that easy.

@nyki7fykxtjxyi 6 месяцев назад

It’s not just lung cancer asbestos causes all kinds of cancer

@citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936 5 месяцев назад

@@fjp912 ahem..... hem.... cough cough.... yeah

@pike8123 6 месяцев назад

* many humans were harmed in the making of this film.

@mikedfgfj 5 месяцев назад

* many humans were harmed in the making of this world.

@kamakaziozzie3038 6 месяцев назад

As a 30 year electrical contractor, I have personally known two other electricians that have passed from Mesothelioma- right in my town. Neither was old. one late 40’s, the other mid fifties. Kinda scary. Asbestos is everywhere electricians work. I’ve found the problem most pervasive in attics spaces..it’s wrapped around water pipes and furnace exhaust vents.

@citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936 5 месяцев назад

It is finally customary to test for asbestos...... rock wool, drywall, furnace pipe and duct insulation etc....if structure predates 1980, Contractors should ROUTINELY test before disturbing old construction materials for this and lead.

@therealelizafox 6 месяцев назад

"And the ability to spray it on an existing building must have saved many a headache." And destroyed many a lung.

@RBMK1500 9 дней назад

came here to make exactly this comment. got defeated.

@jasm.5823 6 месяцев назад

I never knew it was such a miracle product. Too bad that our feeble airsacks can’t handle it.

@MarioMastar 6 месяцев назад

Well yeah, generally getting anything rough in our bodies has the effect you'd expect. But the wisest people know how to use it while minimizing risk. Too bad most people just want to pretend thier invincible to danger becasue they read too many glory stories and thus the stuff has to be banned. I feel if used today, people would probably deliberately scratch and sniff it like the "Covid parties" teens held and other stupid things like that.

@annpeerkat2020 6 месяцев назад

@jasm.5823 when you look closely at it, tobacco actually has a lot of beneficial attributes too.

@mankind8088 6 месяцев назад

No a miracle if it kills you

@marinzeraja5416 6 месяцев назад

Thats why its still being used

@Thefox0922 6 месяцев назад

*Feeble airsacks*

@AnthonyHandcock 6 месяцев назад

Still the best substance for wrapping any leftover plutonium you have in the fridge.

@trainnerd3029 6 месяцев назад

How did I not think of this?? Thank you!

@goglowdaddy1686 6 месяцев назад

You rock! I have been saving leftover plutonium since the nineties, not knowing what to do with it. You have solved the issue. Thank you.

@AnthonyHandcock 6 месяцев назад

We scientists* like to help. * May be less scientisty than illustrated levels of scientistiness.

@DynamicSeq 6 месяцев назад

@@goglowdaddy1686 I sold mine to north korea...

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 6 месяцев назад

I told you not to mention that.

@bloqk16 6 месяцев назад

Whenever a TV commercial comes on to tout its product being _natural_ to imply that it is safe for use or consumption, I always talk back to the TV to say: "Lead and *asbestos* are also natural products!"

@linandy1 6 месяцев назад

it is natural !

@bobbysenterprises3220 6 месяцев назад

I was about to say this. But I say asbestos and uranium

@b43xoit 6 месяцев назад

Along with nicotine and malathion.

@buckadillafilms 6 месяцев назад

the TV can hear you

@bobbysenterprises3220 6 месяцев назад

@@b43xoit my brain read a similar looking word that started with M.

@stephenellis3430 6 месяцев назад

By the 1970s when this promo was made the asbestos industry was fully aware of the harm it could do the lungs of humans. But continued to make the case there was no alternative. Those poor people working in that textile factor or those guys drilling and sawing the sheets. This is when the asbestos was most likely to get inhaled and remain in the lungs. A ticking bomb for lung cancer.

@stephenellis3430 6 месяцев назад

Many people involved in the asbestos industry like the workers lagging the ship pipes featured in this video. They never got any compensation for the crippling lung cancer as they died before they got justice. The industry knew all to well how dangerous the fibres were when airborne and provided very little protection for workers.

@MarioMastar 6 месяцев назад

@@stephenellis3430 Just sad how through the entire last century people sitting comfy in thier chairs would condemn so many people to their deaths and then take all credit for victory or cover up their deaths for failure. And in the turn of the millenium, the only thing that remained are even more people sitting comfy in their chairs wishing others would suffer cause they're bored.

@billsimpson604 6 месяцев назад

Yep, they absolutely knew way back in the 1930's that it could cause cancers. The children who mined it seldom lived to 35 years old. I read the case history of the trial. @@stephenellis3430

@ernestsmith3581 6 месяцев назад

When a better alternative to fiberglass is developed, there will be more billion dollar lawsuits.

@MJW60777 6 месяцев назад

Companies made bank in the "Great Asbestos Removal Bidding Wars" throughout the 90's Tearing and breaking this stuff out of old schools and hospitals all around NY state. Some companies were cutting corners using inferior or no air filtration, no plastic tarps, coverings and lining, they caused more damage in the removal by releasing all the fibers into the air.

@nunyab8003 6 месяцев назад

Looking at YOU Tony and crew!

@sid2112 6 месяцев назад

@@nunyab8003 Session 9! Good flick!

@TrapperAaron 6 месяцев назад

Yea this was a late 90s contractors wet dream. Go in to put down some tile. Oh no u got asbestos linoleum. Here's ur new bill, and my new Dodge 3500 4 door diesel pickup. Made allot of money off of people's fear of this stuff. Even when u tell them if u leave it alone it won't cause any problems people still tweak out and want it gone at any cost. And IT COSTS lemme tell u!

@MJW60777 6 месяцев назад

@@sid2112 Truth👍

@MJW60777 6 месяцев назад

@@TrapperAaron To have even a partial business ownership in the removal of asbestos and mold back then 🤑

@karp6130 6 месяцев назад

I used to work in the H+V industry and would discover situations of old and damaged degraded asbestos linings in air heater ducts in schools and offices. The dust being blown all over the building.

@ChrisAthanas 6 месяцев назад

Now I understand why this was everywhere

@DeadKoby 6 месяцев назад

It was really a super-substance for insulation and fire resistance.

@caerleon87 5 месяцев назад

In the uk there are/were about 3000 different building products that contained asbestos

@Kref3 6 месяцев назад

10:50 easy to cut and drill. wonderful idea and good to know. I am sold, I‘ll line my walls with it.

@BedsitBob 6 месяцев назад

If you need to cut or drill it, drench it with water first.

@keithalaird 6 месяцев назад

I graduated from engineering school in 1978. In college classes, Asbestos was still a miracle product. About 1981 or so, my 3000 person employer herded all 250 mechanical engineers into a conference room and told us “Thou shall no longer specify asbestos. Period end of discussion

@rogueninja1685 6 месяцев назад

Even this presenter said something like great care must be taken not to breath it" after describing the slivers of rock dividing 100 times less than a hair. Is the 30 millionths?

@b43xoit 6 месяцев назад

@@rogueninja1685 I heard him say "breathe", not "breath", which sounds different.

@c3h50n023 6 месяцев назад

For economic and supply reasons every pharma company i have worked for has made the same decree for the use of Helium

@jasonsvendsen3917 6 месяцев назад

After watching this not-at-all biased film brought to you by the Asbestos Information Committee, I am convinced. Why are we not using this miracle material everywhere?

@MarioMastar 6 месяцев назад

Cause no one in this country knows how to think for themselves, so 90% of people would either freak the f8ck out at the mentioning of the name, or deliberately try to kill people with it. Just can't have nice things

@annpeerkat2020 6 месяцев назад

@jasonsvendsen3917 wanna buy a cheap house?

@ingvarhallstrom2306 6 месяцев назад

It's a Conspiracy by Big Health to sell more Life.

@ernestsmith3581 6 месяцев назад

Besides, fiberglass costs more and will eventually be shown to be just as dangerous.

@erikgstewart 6 месяцев назад

Next: "The Wonders of Uranium at Home" by the British Nuclear Board (1951).

@bloqk16 6 месяцев назад

In the US, there were some that touted that domiciles could have their own nuclear power electric generators as a means to power the homes.

@cyberGEK 2 месяца назад

I’m a big fan of radium water myself! 😂

@AcuraLvR82 6 месяцев назад

This is prolly the only video ive ever seen that effectively demonstrates just how much asbestos was used everywhere. But seeing the kids play in the pool area constructed with asbestos hits pretty hard.

@HeavyZeppelin68 6 месяцев назад

Makes me think of Bart Simpson campaigning for class president with the chant: "More asbestos! More asbestos!"

@LuciFeric137 6 месяцев назад

When working in a metal fab plant, my company asked me to be lowered by forklift in huge annealing oven. It was lined with asbestos bricks, at least 50 years old, to do a repair. No safety equipment at all.

@l3p3 6 месяцев назад

And you are still with us.

@othername1000 6 месяцев назад

A confined space work environment. Air monitoring and supply, medical evac planned, stand by team for extraction, and whatever else I forgot from when I read the new standards. I'd be more worried about working in an oven, hoping somebody wasn't hungover that day. Every so often somebody gets trapped and cooks to death in a food factory.

@ericwotton2046 6 месяцев назад

This stuff really is a great building product, exept for its tendency to kill you.

@DrBovdin 6 месяцев назад

Fortunately it only tends to be aggressive towards the builders and eventual dismantlers of the building. As long as you don’t poke the dragon she keeps you safe. If you have asbestos in your house and it’s in a place where you never need to touch it, I would always leave it in situ, and possibly make a note of its presence to be passed on to future inhabitants.

@20alphabet 6 месяцев назад

Didn't kill most who were exposed to it.

@dreadpenguinlord340 6 месяцев назад

Well -- I'm sold. I'll be getting my walls filled and my pipes lined by Friday. Just have to find a vendor...

@jimurrata6785 6 месяцев назад

I worked on the JohnsManville house. It was balloon framed and poured full of vermiculite from the attic to the basement.

@caseyjones1999 6 месяцев назад

"We didn't get to take a vacation, the lunch break at the asbestos factory, was my vacation" Jarrod Benson

@billmcdonald0256 6 месяцев назад

In the 1960's We had in grades 3.4.5.Powdered Abestos in our classrooms 😮 Add some water Mix it up in your hands 🙌 To make a paste for art class Making toys Houses 🏘 & dolls 🪆 After drying we would paint 🎨 them..Then take our art work home to show 🤗 Mom 👩

@2degucitas 6 месяцев назад

That's horrifying

@steveb9151 6 месяцев назад

And who can forget eating Asbestos-Frosted Flakes? They're Grrrrrrrrruesome!

@acampbell8614 5 месяцев назад

You just dredged back a memory of mine of doing the exact same thing in the late 60s. It was dark grey fibrous stuff.

@quantumleap359 6 месяцев назад

Read "The Air That Kills", a book about the miners who mined asbestos, and paid the ultimate price.

@stephenellis3430 6 месяцев назад

Theses a very interesting promo video about asbestos in tarmac during the 1950s. They literally tip bag of the strands into the mixing machines by hand. Apparently it made the road last longer. But must of made so much asbestos dust as the road was used.

@aarond23 6 месяцев назад

Very useful, just don't breathe!

@mfbfreak 6 месяцев назад

Or do, then it'll even help you to stop breathing!

@FeetusMcCarland 6 месяцев назад

I got mesothelioma just from watching this video

@goglowdaddy1686 6 месяцев назад

Yup, this stuff is so dangerous, I got ill just reading your comment. Please wrap your comment in an asbestos proof word bag. Thanks.

@AcuraLvR82 6 месяцев назад

I was thinking that after seeing the part where its being processed in the raw and flying through the air lol.

@ingvarhallstrom2306 6 месяцев назад

I'm coughing up my lung as we speak, and I haven't finished the darn video yet.

@robertgavin980 6 месяцев назад

At least they had the sense not to make things out of tobacco in those days 👀

@mankind8088 6 месяцев назад

😭😂🤣😭😂😭😂😂😭🤣😭

@maha77 6 месяцев назад

We had our home insulated with Asbestos in the 70's when I was just a kid. I watched them pump it into our walls. Immediately after our house was filled with a haze of asbestos floating everywhere, for months and months. It looked like floating snow. When I would watch tv in the dark I'd see the air filled with floating particles. My eyes would be burning. My mom was adversely affected and had to stay outside the house for awhile. I'm approaching 60 and am essentially healthy. I do have some health issues but not sure if it's related.

@dr.danchallice3888 6 месяцев назад

See, it's not as bad as people say.

@trainnerd3029 6 месяцев назад

@@dr.danchallice3888 hey, I have a question… Am I going to hell for laughing uncontrollably at your response?

@billsimpson604 6 месяцев назад

Get checked. It is free. You could be in line for some money from the fund set up for asbestos victims. Relatives of asbestos workers are now getting damage awards.

@FromSagansStardust 6 месяцев назад

Yes, but find a lawyer who doesn't have a TV commercial about it!@@billsimpson604

@Thefox0922 6 месяцев назад

Please get checked out It could save your life if there is anything

@jsnsk101 6 месяцев назад

One day people will see videos like this about plastics and cell phones and wonder what the heck were they thinking

@eddjordan2399 6 месяцев назад

maybe plastic not cell phones unless you mean the crushing phycological scarring smart phones have left due to social media.

@arturneland4057 4 месяца назад

In a couple decades this video would be equally absurd: "Why you should love fossil fuels" by PragerU ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-49Teja5YNCo.html&pp=ygUfdGhlIG1vcmFsIGNhc2UgZm9yIGZvc3NpbCBmdWVscw%3D%3D

@askhowiknow5527 6 месяцев назад

All natural mineral fiber that is fireproof? They should make cigarette filters out of it.

@joeblow8593 6 месяцев назад

They did, Kent Micronite from 1952-1954 contained crocidolite asbestos fibers.

@georgerobartes2008 6 месяцев назад

" If the tar don't get you , the asbestos will "

@senilyDeluxe 6 месяцев назад

Taking a shot every time he says Asbestos might turn out healthier than the filming of this movie.

@MrDastardly 6 месяцев назад

This weekend I’m wearing my asbestos shirt!!

@roberts1938 6 месяцев назад

I wonder why RU-vid includes warnings about tobacco or alcohol but doesn't include warnings about asbestos advertising? Nevertheless, the film is very interesting and I had no idea that asbestos was used in so many products, one could say on a massive scale.

@bloqk16 6 месяцев назад

I also found it interesting and amazed at all the different ways it could be processed, especially in liquid form, for numerous applications.

@djosbun 6 месяцев назад

I saw a video last year (a recently made video) of a man in Cuba relining brake shoes with an asbestos-mixed substance. He was working in the Cuba-approved safety apparel: sleeveless t-shirt, brightly colored shorts and flip-flops. He seemed to enjoy cigars while working, too.

@user-wy1dl2me2p 6 месяцев назад

Blue collar man tough as nails

@jpcaretta8847 6 месяцев назад

Officially, He will die from smoking, not asbestos.

@59vaughn 6 месяцев назад

But only in amurica....

@steveb9151 6 месяцев назад

In some places, Casual Friday is every day.

@BangersAndMash98 6 месяцев назад

Of course he liked cigars while working, breathing asbestos is dangerous, the cigar is his filter!

@innercityprepper 6 месяцев назад

Next up, Lead Paint - Delicious, but deadly!

@broadcastmyballs 6 месяцев назад

Is that narrated by Troy McClure?

@teri2466 6 месяцев назад

@@broadcastmyballs I miss Phil.

@20alphabet 6 месяцев назад

Weak minded people agree.

@anthonyalles1833 6 месяцев назад

When I was growing up in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, every single suburban home had corrugated asbestos cement fences and lots of buildings had asbestos walls and roofs. I wonder what happened to them. What replaced asbestos for fire resistance? Is it still used for bearings?

@MrHavokman 6 месяцев назад

Fibre cement. So just different fibres than asbestos

@billsimpson604 6 месяцев назад

They recently banned it in brake pads in the USA. That was about the last use of it here. It was all over homes in the USA too. The subdivision I grew up in had asbestos cement roofing shingles. It is not dangerous unless you inhale it. Problem is, sawing it releases some of the fibers. They used to cover exterior walls of homes with asbestos siding in New Orleans. The stuff will last forever if nothing hits it and breaks the shingles. As far as fire, all new commercial buildings above a certain small size, and all high rise buildings in the USA need to be sprinkled. Old buildings, like the New Orleans City Hall which I worked in, built in 1954, had to have sprinklers installed. It was full of asbestos which was eventually removed. A new City Hall is being planned. You might see my old 25 year, home away from home next year, because the 2025 NFL Super Bowl will be played in the Caesars Superdome on 9 February, 2025. You can see the huge dome across Poydras Street from City Hall. The edge of that dome roof is a lot steeper than it looks. I moved to Slidell after the Katrina flooding.

@daveybeee2319 6 месяцев назад

Wow they really had this stuff in everything back then. I know the main use was for pipe insulation in cellars, but didnt realize just how wide spread it was.

@Kevin75668 6 месяцев назад

My grandparent's house was built in the 60's. Asbestos cement siding, asbestos sheeting on the door between the garage and house, asbestos floor tiles, asbestos pipe and ductwork insulation.

@coolbluelights 6 месяцев назад

They sure made this video asbestos they could!

@rdallas81 6 месяцев назад

Good 👍

@craiggilchrist4223 6 месяцев назад

If It's too good to be true, then it usually is.

@paulnicholson1906 6 месяцев назад

my dad brought the raw rock back from work, we played with it pulling fibers off which was cool.

@Thefox0922 6 месяцев назад

You should get checked out It’s free and it could save your life if something is wrong

@Katchi_ 6 месяцев назад

@@Thefox0922 There is no saving anybody...

@Thefox0922 6 месяцев назад

@@Katchi_ if lung cancer where to develop its best to catch it early be fore it becomes inoperable

@crquality2002 6 месяцев назад

This is like watching a horror movie in many ways. I can see why it was so popular, but it is scary how it was (and maybe still is) everywhere. I can feel the mesothelioma through my screen.

@mbox314 6 месяцев назад

If every employee died from asbestos I think they would have outlawed it sooner. Do we even know what precentage of asbestos workers died from exposure?

@Onethirtytwo 6 месяцев назад

This should be narrated by Troy McClure.

@ALaKouji 2 месяца назад

The irony of asbestos is that the exact same property that made it so effective in building materials, is also what made it so deadly (indestructible, microscopic fibers, the body can't break them down)

@locouk 6 месяцев назад

When I was a mechanic, I had to take care with brake dust. Even in the mid 90’s some cars still had asbestos in the brake and clutch linings. I didn’t know it was used in gaskets..

@FromSagansStardust 6 месяцев назад

I'm a retired aircraft mechanic. They started shifting brake pads over to non-asbestos, and everybody (mechanics, aircraft owner/mechs, parts shops etc) started hoarding asbestos pads cause they just worked better.

@TheKnobCalledTone. 6 месяцев назад

Chinese cars used asbestos in brake linings and gaskets are recently as the mid 2010s. Great Wall and Chery were the biggest culprits.

@GTI1dasOriginal 6 месяцев назад

There once was a time asbestos was used in everything. Tiling cement, ceilings, curtains, firefighters clothing, roofing, warmwaterpipeinsulation, you name it.. Nothing wrong with the material when kept incapsulated until... you feel like renovating houses built in the 50's, 60's and early 70's..

@selflesssamaritan6417 Месяц назад

Asbestos: "I am fireproof!" Chlorine trifluoride: "I'm gonna end this man's whole career"

@KidMetairie 6 месяцев назад

Dorms at my college had sprayed asbestos in the ceilings. One summer around 1987 they sealed it all in some kind of spray sealant. Guys used to bounce golf, tennis, basketballs off it. Surprised we don’t all have lung cancer. Those buildings all razed 20 years ago now.

@nunyab8003 6 месяцев назад

Tick tick tick

@FromSagansStardust 6 месяцев назад

My high school had that. We used to try to get pencils to stick in it. The worst was the gym locker room. We used to throw sneakers and wet towels up at the ceiling an that asbestos fluff would come down in clumps.

@CatMom-uw9jl 6 месяцев назад

A brand-new grade school I attended for a year or so in the 70s had a super-thick version of a popcorn ceiling. The whole school was open plan, with the library in the middle up a short flight of stairs. The taller kids could just reach the ceiling coating from the stairs, where the ceiling angled down, and we all took turns poking at it. We were surprised because it looked soft and fluffy, but felt like styrofoam. It was probably full of asbestos. We were breathing fumes from leaded gasoline every time we were in a car back then, too. I forget if it was Dow or some other company whose slogan was Better Living Through Chemistry. Fun times/s

@FromSagansStardust 6 месяцев назад

Not positive, but I think it was DuPont.@@CatMom-uw9jl

@AlbertDongler 6 месяцев назад

Fascinating! Thanks for posting

@mackpines 6 месяцев назад

Why Asbestos? Because cancer! Seriously, this came out in 1970. Didn’t we understand by then that this stuff was hazardous to our health? I’m cringing at all the people in this who are handling the material without protective equipment.

@lohphat 6 месяцев назад

They knew in 1965 it was bad: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069377/

@leew8812 6 месяцев назад

Yes we did. First noted case of asbestosis was in the 20's

@rogerbartlet5720 6 месяцев назад

Some people sick, some studies were made, some lawyers got excited and a useful material was banned.

@pondersoa8223 6 месяцев назад

Bro they knew the dangers of the products they marketed. They didn't care because they made money... They knew this stuff that was bad they didn't care because of greed

@mfbfreak 6 месяцев назад

Yes, they did understand, and that's why there is one little sentence that's easily missed - 'Asbestos fibres are so small that we must be careful not to breathe them in' - or something. In the 60s they wouldn't have bothered with that, but by the 70s they couldn't ignore it anymore so they had to pay some lip service to the people demanding safety measures.

@MedicatedMemory 6 месяцев назад

I used to play in the stuff. The old Victorian i grew up in( built in 1896)was full of it

@cambo1200 6 месяцев назад

This makes my lungs itchy.

@gerryroush8391 6 месяцев назад

I remember steam pipes wrapped in the stuff when I was in Kindergarten 😮 And that awful puke green paint 😂

@jsnsk101 6 месяцев назад

I remember that pipe cladding, mostly from our school!

@speicherkanal4894 6 месяцев назад

Presented by the „Asbestos Information Committee“ 😅

@conesuela1 6 месяцев назад

I wonder what they are up to these days?

@YouzACoopa 6 месяцев назад

I sure could use some more information about Asbestos

@CowbopBeBoy 6 месяцев назад

Wow this stuff is amazing! Where can I get my hands on this miracle rock?

@rdallas81 6 месяцев назад

Crack?

@logicalthinker78 6 месяцев назад

This stuff sounds amazing! Where can I get some?

@thermobollocks 6 месяцев назад

"most of us don't notice asbestos" 20 to 50 years later depending on exposure

@bestb.1169 4 месяца назад

My 1880, 2 story house is completely covered with Ceramic asbestos tile siding. It's very old and painted over many times but it functions.

@FROG2000 6 месяцев назад

Pulled up a room full of asbestos tile a while back, didn't know it was asbestos until afterwards. Probably took 10 years off my life.

@93jsaw 6 месяцев назад

Same..

@2dub2steady 6 месяцев назад

Call now for your free Mesothelioma handbook. Operators are dying by.

@stevenedington6265 6 месяцев назад

It’s hard to except asbestos as a a miracle as I lay here with scared lungs and paralyzed vocal cords because of it. And I’m lucky. If I had turned to cancer there is on cure and only an 18 month life expectancy from diagnosis. Is this my thank you for my military service?

@srfurley 6 месяцев назад

From just about the same time as this film two British television programmes give a very different view of asbestos. Take a look at The Dust at Acre Mill and Alice - Fight for Life. They can both be found on RU-vid.

@rsvp9146 6 месяцев назад

Asbestos is ok to use, provided you dont breathe in asbestos dust. Lots of buildings still have asbestos tiles.

@MmmHuggles 6 месяцев назад

It's really a shame. It was such a useful material and cheap too.

@MaikTiison 6 месяцев назад

Make Asbestos great again, bring it back.

@YouzACoopa 6 месяцев назад

more asbestos! more asbestos! more asbestos!

@conesuela1 6 месяцев назад

Well, that aged well.

@williamjhunter5714 Месяц назад

I wonder if it was ever used to make fire proof bow strings in archery in ancient wars. Its a fiber strong enough to make a bow string.

@kingfish4575 6 месяцев назад

You can almost feel the mesothelioma....

@hoilst265 6 месяцев назад

"And if I work all day at the Blue Sky Mine..."

@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda 6 месяцев назад

Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground. Who's gonna save me? 🇦🇺👨‍🦲💔👍

@scotsmanofnewengland7713 6 месяцев назад

Troy, Vermont had the biggest asbestos mine in America and the tailings piles are high and wide and polluting the local streams and rivers

@coraltown1 5 месяцев назад

"endlessly divisible" .. yep, that do be a problem. 😵‍💫

@paulr7547 6 месяцев назад

I use it every day on my toast . Tastes great.

@59vaughn 6 месяцев назад

Everything can kill us....where's the tech to use it properly...and the smarts on how to handle it..?

@zambufly1 6 месяцев назад

I used to huff asbestos and spray paint in the 70's.

@wdmm94 6 месяцев назад

It was also used a lot wherever they needed fiber reinforcement. Cement pipe, cement roofing/siding, asphalt shingles/roofing, floor tiles, and even asphalt roads. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IhBbF5sJkYM.htmlsi=qLlOvNNxI3m5ojAz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OERZBoUfHY8.htmlsi=ip8LAGvsAK39fn3F

@pauljensen5699 6 месяцев назад

April Fool, but it's educational.

@gman3109 6 месяцев назад

Don't touch that asbestos Billy, you don't know where it's been!

@Oliverdobbins 3 месяца назад

One thing this otherwise excellent film doesn’t mention, is that Asbestos is also an excellent thing to stub your cigar out on. And, while I’m at it, nothing makes a bacon sandwich taste better than to eat it off a slab of Uranium. Adds a pleasant tingle that’s best gotten rid of with a lot of alcohol and caffeine.

@jagmarc 6 месяцев назад

Why has the video upload have added atrifical black speckles flashing the whole way through?

@MrOshirinoana 6 месяцев назад

It confuses the copyright bots

@treywaz 6 месяцев назад

Wow this stuff is AMAZING lets put it in everything! Woah what's with this cough that wont go away?🤒🤒🤒

@brianp7022 6 месяцев назад

Omg imagine walking into a mill weaving asbestos 💀😮

@20alphabet 6 месяцев назад

Most workers were fine.

@kandiceblu1 5 месяцев назад

How does that saying go" anything too good to be true "asbestos fits the bill....

@Sublimelife411 6 месяцев назад

Just one small problem with it!!

@sr-7124 6 месяцев назад

They keep remarking on its “mysterious” and “strange” properties. I feel like anything that’s still deemed strange or mysterious shouldn’t be mass-exploited yet.