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1 breathe it caused you to get in trouble.
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2 Q So in that 1956 time period you knew that if
3 you inhaled asbestos-containing dust or dust that
4 contained asbestos, you could get in trouble,
5 correct? You could get sick.
6 But my question is, did you know that one of
7 the sicknesses or the possible sicknesses was cancer?
8 A No. It is --I thought it took your lungs
9 out of circulation, parts of your lungs.
10 Q What was it that you understood that this
11 asbestosis was that the people that used asbestos
12 products could get?
13 What was this disease?
14 A If you breathe it, it went into the lungs
15 and took part of the lungs out of circulation.
16 Q It would cause the lungs to get scarred and
17 not be able to function correctly?
18 A Right, but you could live with it, as many
19 people are, I guess.
20 Aren't they?
21 Q Yes. You knew that one of the problems