The Evil Dust - the history of asbestos, an excerpt 

Was his spinal cord open to the air?

valleyboy you need some help

Cigaretts are Just as dangerous. My dad at 44 years old went to see a doctor because of a bad cough, learned he had lung cancer because of Winston cigaretts. He Too died in 3 months. 1972

@@valleyboy2099 so what are you trying to imply?

Sorry to hear that Mike. My dad's just been diagnosed with asbestos related lung disease. We wr heating engineers and used to eat the shit on an almost daily basis. Here we are 30 year later and it's got him. Profits over people eh ... Disgrace. Take care.

@Untrepid One If the stuff that I'd make the money on would result in thousands of deaths then my answer to your question would be no.

Greed is a powerful thing.

As long as profits are involved, the Big Shots will do anything and everything to continue to SELL!!!

Funny how the senior executives in big tobacco companies never smoked.

It dosen't hurt you at all unless you inhale lots of dust.

Rod Fearnley My dad was in the Uss Chicago in ww2.... He has plural plaque In Both lungs He’s lucky to be alive Gonna be 94 soon Albeit missing 20% of one lung from this

marko cynamon , I wish your father well Marko.

@@markocynamon5921 the thing is at any age over 80 life goes down hill anyway and it’s not an enjoyment sorry for you family though

Godspeed, our country failed you and your brothers in arms. I apologize on our country’s behalf, lest this happen again.

@@markocynamon5921humanity failed you. I am sorry for your loss😢

Kev Hu celotex insulation. I believe will be the new asbestos of the future you physically can feel it even if a mask is worn

Rc 2018 I wear a chemical respirator when I work around fiberglass insulation and all kinds of other dust . My boss makes fun of me but I don’t care .

Farts

Don't forget dust from man made ceaser stone.

@@davidwellander6030 me too dude just a p2 mask

how can i get rid of the asbestos in an apartment after an company didn´t isolate the bathroom ?

you said it!

aka I agree

Agree. It was never banned is US, for the record. You didnt say where you were.

If left alone, it's safe. It's only when broken up into dust that's it's dangerous.

Gamepro3093 Nick Kulstad It's best if it is not removed from buildings because if ever these get removed by breaking and pulling chances are that more dust will be released into the air and drift towards adjacent properties and homes, affecting those who breathe it, especially if the removal of the material is done on windy days. Asbestos material is harmless once it is installed in buildings, as long as it is not disturbed, not even nailing a wall to hang a picture frame should be done. Asbestos is a non disolving material, a type of thin glass fibre that, once inhaled, it cannot be removed by coughing it out. The dust is so fine and as sharp as needles that wedge on the walls of the alveoles in the lungs, pricking the walls and cause a mucus to seep out and choking the alveoli from getting oxygen, causing irritation ad coughing. When you have breathed too much of this evil dust it 'wedges' inside each alveoli and starts blocking them. Over the years you blamed smoking, you blamed car pollution, etc., but in reality nobody though that is was asbestos you breathed from somewhere. To get sick from asbestos you must breathe a lot and to breathe a lot you must be working in an asbestos factory, etc., unless you intentionally break a chunk of the evil 'wool' and breathe it close up. The title is right, 'Evil Dust'. Of course anything that is mined is cursed, even gold. In Australia there is a giant Dragon that every greedy pig wants. It's miles and miles of it, all within reach as it is a few centimeters to 100 or more meters under ground. It's called Uranium. Enough deposit to blow the world out of the Solar System. Guess who wants it? Of course those ever expanding and breeding Chinese who are never happy unless they buy all of Australia for themselves. I once though only dogs have fleas. Now I think this planet also has billions of destructive fleas of the human kind.

Why not? You’re lungs are already permanently damaged from asbestos. There’s no reversing it

Hey are you saying that you will fuel the fire instead of extinguishing it? Yep you sound like a normal human being. Go on

DreamsIntoReality if you’re exposed to that much asbestos you’re already doomed. Smoking or not, asbestos is permanent in the lungs. I guess you’d be the one trying to eat as healthy as possible when the clock is ticking? That won’t help jack shit with a carcinogen like asbestos.

Why go outside, we can smoke while we work

@@26TptCoy yes, and inhale deeply! 😲

cguy Remember how safe smoking used to be?

The insurance companies are in on this.

Steven Hickman you’re a moron.

DUPONT

cguy The purpose of many Insurance companies is to collect from many and pay out to very few. Profit before people. Those CEO salaries are not going to pay themselves.

SA-News how was it gone?

Abraham Alburez You misunderstand. He means his father died of asbestosis, not that the cancer was gone.

@@AyeeBroTV He died in 6 months

My uncle was an electrician and died of the same thing.

Workers at the General Electric (GE) plant in Peterborough, Ontario were exposed to a range of toxic chemicals from 1945 to 2000, including asbestos, arsenic, vinyl chloride, beryllium, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene (TCE), polychlorinated biphenols, uranium and lead compounds, according to a new report released by Unifor, Canada’s largest union in the private sector. The document was presented to Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) - an independent trust that administers compensation for workplaces - on 18 May.

andy thompson ALL in the name of MONEY & GREED from the chairman’s of these greedy companies !

Oil industry over global warming

Yeah tabacco would appear safe if someone didn't tell me, I'm sure people know if they honest with them selves

@@chubeye1187 how can we escape and keep the current population going? Oil is in everything, including pavement, solvents plastic clothes phones it's everywhere And manufacturing things power grid transportation Only very hard choice can do it, I mean unspeakable choices

Canada is still mining and exporting the chrysotile asbestos to the third world under the radar in massive scale!

canadian patriot 😔rip

Welp..you roll the dice and pay the price. I'd bet dollars to donuts you smoke as well.

asbestos kill people that work months or years without any ppe 20-50years :)

Your aunt must have been extremely unlucky, the odds of developing illness being a non smoker is hugely reduced

Even in the production of beer back in the day they used asbestos filters to purify the beer.

It causes more than JUST asbestosis, the number of asbestosis cases compared to the total number of people exposed to asbestos is very small and there's workers who worked daily with t he stuff who didn't get asbestosis, but plenty of people have various unexplained cancers, pancreatic cancer, cancer of the bladder and prostate like a childhood friend of mine in this 50s has battled the last few years with, they had to remove his prostate AND bladder. Women who used various feminine talc powders have also come down not with lung diseases from dust, but ovarian and urinary tract cancers. So the asbestos gets in the body various ways and causes non lung cancers too. W.R.Grace shipped millions of tons of their contaminated attic insulation all over the country and beyond, every train carrying the stuff was contaminated as were every truck hardware store that moved/sold the paper bags of insulation to consumers to take home and dump in their attics. So every customer's car, clothes, homes, carpeting, upholstered furniture were also contaminated. So probably there is almost no one who hasnt been exposed in some form to some degree. So what did W.R Grace do when the shit hit the fan? why of course they did the American way of business- they filed for BANKRUPTCY protection and dumped the whole mess on others to clean up, re-organized as a "new" company and they are still in business today. Owens-corning, Johns-Manville- all the same crap doing the same things.

I have no doubt the fiberglass wool insulation will be the next asbestos, Owens-corning etc claiming the GLASS fibers if they get in the lungs "break down" when was the last time you saw GLASS just disolve? they fail to remember there's 900 year old stained glass windows on cathedrals in Europe- glass does not just "break down" like paper or cardboard!

@@noidontthinksolol The needle like fibers get caught up in the digestive system! with so many getting stomach, pancreatic bladder and colon cancers- asbestos fibers is one contributor.

Thens of thousands of people die from cigarette smoking cancer, but that does not count. Phillip Morris and Co makes Billions of$$$$$$. Eliminating Asbestos did not hurt the pocket book.

Smug Smugly Cousin Eddy!

Only the working classes

@gaskan666 so does being a firefighter.

Greed kills so many just look at the last 100 years for what

Could you make a less original comment?

@@elonmust7470 Nope

Sorry to hear about your father... Makes me wonder... My old man worked as a mechanic in the 60-70-ties, brake pads an clutches were full off asbestos. He's pushing 78 years, and (fingers crossed) still going strong...

@ 67

What industry were you in?

How are you know any lung issues and how old are you?

James Lawlor construction and insulation. Including spraying asbestos insulation onto boiler pipes

I’m in my 60s

That is WRONG! But so funny at the same time! Lol

@Iron Knight If it was your father, sister, mother, brother involved you wouldn't be laughing about being "triggered" now would you, snowflake?

Iron Knight CHILDREN!!! Let’s just say that you’re BOTH snowflakes....

Cremation makes you have no soul you can't visit the other realm when you have been burnt I'm pretty sure.. because where I go I've seen all my cats that been burried but mums cats that she cremated I've never seen them ever again . Cremation is a trick.

Jono G BURRIED??? please buy a dictionarey in future

All planned

You will never be rich

Today they poisson food,water,the air with the acceptance of government which are their puppets

@@gabydicu "poison"

@@None-zc5vg "pedant"

Interesting

That is INSANE

the water saved him :)

AsWORSTos

American dad

Pro Asbestos Removal Brisbane Give you guys a call so you can make more money

uni000ver000sal The problem with that is? Do you not use money then?

***** G'day Ritchie, if I had to do it, I would mask, overalls and a dust suppression system. Wrap all asbestos in plastic and take to an asbestos disposal landfill. So you see, if one knows what one is dealing with then one is prepared. How much do you charge?

***** That was deep and meaningful!

Whether removal is more beneficial is debatable.. Disturbing the fibres can make them linger in home air for months or years!

George Kaplan Micronite!

Hi, I used to live in Australia and I used to be taught about this in school. I haven’t been there in 4 years now and this brought be back to my childhood. Thanks

There is *no* minimum exposure level for asbestos. A single fiber can cause cancer.

@@acmefixer1 thats strange since there is asbestos fibres in the air we breathe

Industrial strength lungs mate ;)

@@fikofikret1522 it depends on where you are.

@@seanhartnett79 its basicly everywhere, but the concentration varies. See it like air polution. We humans are good at destroying the earth and our selfs with industralisation of everything for money.

Kent ,smoke Kent with the micronite filter cigarette.

@@owenz1945 THAT was what was in it. Get and read 'Environmental Overkill' by Dixie Lee Ray and get the truth, if there is any.

@@lewiemcneely9143 yeah the joke was that an asbestos filter was used and I'll have a look at the book

@@owenz1945 Oh, it'll make your blood boil! Has snail darters and all matters of stuff that's been made up or invented. Another one is 'Operation Paperclip' where all the WW-2 death camp scientists' were paid to come over here so we could profit from their 'research'. We've been HAD!

I remember reading somewhere that smoking sort of mitigated the negative effects of asbestos exposure because the fibers would get trapped by the tar

Nick Rz needs more likes

🤣😂 i was waiting for someone to notice this too

Phillip LeJeune facts 😂

I'm LOLing real hard now

the words you seek are hard to come by when in this situation.

There is alot more information on asbestos then your instructor told you about

@@4468861989 It still holds true. The main argument being that at the time asbestos was becoming "dangerous", the first effects of cigarette smoking (lung cancer) was being revealed. Cigarette smoking was much more prevalent in the US and the cigarette industry funded the studies against the asbestos industry, effectively killing it. Any study that states that 100 percent, (fill in the blank) causes cancer, should be considered suspect. Many "causes" of cancer are not necessarily so. I'm sure you are aware that people develop lung cancer with no exposure to either cigarettes or asbestos. People who have been lifelong smokers have never developed lung cancer. If smoking CAUSES cancer conclusively, it would be banned. But smoking does not cause cancer anymore than anything. People can have higher potential of developing cancers or other illnesses from exposure to any or all substances. Including radioactive. But many people who were, survived and lived full lives. Scientists, even those who have conducted quality studies, cannot explain what definitively causes cancer. Anymore than they can say asbestos or smoking causes it. The cause of cancer is cancer. Science cannot determine its trigger in biological subjects. When they can, they'll find the cure.

@@PhilipReeder smoking does cause cancer. And asbestos is dangerous because of the tiny fibers.

@@PhilipReeder by that logic alcohol would be banned, it causes death. But you cannot ban something people like, yes some people will get lucky and not get cancer.

@@seanhartnett79 You failed reading comprehension in school didn't you.

Saibot Saibot I wonder what we humans already knew but was destroyed when the library at Alexandria was burned.

Sailbot you are correct, the ancient Greeks knew about and used asbestos

@@RU-vidVideoViewerDEL That's funny!

The U.K. government are politicians, and such people are known to do anything for money

You will still find asbestos used in many of today's "modern products" Fireproof Doors, Stage curtains, and clothing ...YES clothing at least in the US has not been banned....even now in 2020.

Brian Glade it’s still used in today’s brake pads and some other products.

Like Shakespeare, to die or not to die, depends on where you are at the present time. Making brake pads or using them. Rather sad but that's reality

It is still in certain brake materials, clutches, and inside automatic transmissions to this day.

Yes

Maybe

yes, cause that what men were expected to do for their job. Most industrial jobs had real "this will kill you" hazards. PPE, guards, were not the norm.

Some men are so tough, they don't need hard hats on building sites cuz they've never had anything fall on their head and they don't need to wear seat belts in cars cuz they have never been through a windscreen! There you go shows what a waste of time those things are! Besides, could get hit by a bus tomorrow!

I do wonder how lethal it really is, to those of us casually exposed to it

Best buckin comment I've read all week you are the man or the woman you are the person the internet is yours

True.

mine sympathises how old was he…when fibrosis take him 😣😔

im so sorry for your pa..😣how old wa s he…

Asbestos is what it is. What's nasty is mankind's misusage of it.

Below 1.0 pel. Ceiling tile is non friable. Chrysotile. You’re most likely good.

Corporate cunts greedy wankers

Or because they thought they were helping people live safer lives with a miracle material.... Maybe you have a bit of an agenda? Read much Marx lately?

It's also fun to put a blob of mercury under your tongue, to feel the way it wobbles around in your mouth, good times.!

That tells you alot about how the government feels.about their people! It's not like America, or Canada could even give a fuck less then the Russian federation though!

What states in the federation is it used, and is it the old leftover asbestos or still manufactured..?

Life's cheap in russia

Brett Bannon You aren't alone, it's unbearable >.

Brett Bannon, maybe you should consider yourself lucky. I'm in my early 40s, and I can't hear it. So, you still have good hearing.

yes, sounds like the old tvs

My ears ring all the time.

38 years old, can't hear it....

am you should go get checked

RIP George Fallon 💀

A landlord putting something right that involves spending money? F∆T chance

Cancer ...throw up...cemo

Al Gorel bollocks That’s just a story from azzy training

Oh, it's still here. You just don't hear about it.

It's in the air. It's naturally occurring.

@@KC9UDX It's in the ground but is all over. Exposed but not looked for. There used to be mines for it.

@@lewiemcneely9143 it's everywhere. There's a percentage that's considered normal in the air.

@@KC9UDX Nope, it comes from brake pads and clutch material. That's what goes into the air.

Unless it's in bad shape you are not going to die. I remove this stuff for 25+ years and inhaled more than most. I'll be lucky to make 70.

redhead5150 If you remove it, you would be wearing protective gear so I don't understand why you think you'll be lucky to make 70. If you take all the precautions and wear the appropriate over-garment protection and mask protection, you should be no worse than any other citizen.

@@MsSalemSaberhagen Most importantly, use water to keep the dust down.

You have a point Michael but does that make the deaths caused in its production ok?

swingmanic not in its production. Only accidental or unavoidable deaths. There is no excuse for hiding the dangers from workers. Still, a complete picture requires an accounting of benefits and not just the harm caused.

Not as many as those who died coming in contact with it.

2,471

Rick Matz Where , China and North Korea ?

Middle east. Pakistan. India. Buildings are so strong the stucco just needs a redo after an explosive attack.

It's only the second best, steel is number one.

Sterl is a conductor.

And glass is transparent, it almost always takes more than one material to build a structure.

The Iron Duke Ikr

The industry to remove it and sue is worse than asbestos itself.

And because it is an excellent building material. It is a hell of an insulator. I hate it when people try to make emotional appeals for everything.

@@Bouzoukiellas Emotional Appeal? It's about a considerably poisonous substance that was knowingly sold to an ignorant public for goods and service for decades. How sociopathic do you have to be to attempt to handwave that as just being emotional?

Of course, thats how 🐲🦕🐉🐍🦎🐊🐸 work

What trade are you in? I was exposed to loose fill blue asbestos for 6 months in apartments doing demolition

Ruthlessly Lee I'm in construction up in canada

@@marchebert3872 same with my father exposed in the 1990s plumping in a old hotel in kerry Ireland

I hope your ok, Marc.

@@marchebert3872 rip 💀

Oh yes I see

she was not coughing, she was licking the needle

Did you wear masks? Did it effect your health or any coworkers?

I worked in the offices so would only walk through the factories on occasion. Plenty of people for the factory were affected I believe,