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1 and I am telling you right now, before we got in Page 270 2 business in 1938, it was known that asbestos could 3 cause problems. There is no doubt about it. 4 It was known back in the late 1920s, back in 5 Britain in the 1930s, and basically people knew that 6 if you worked with asbestos over a long period of time 7 in high doses, you can get this lung disease called 8 asbestosis. 9 It is a benign disease. It is scarring, and 10 I think we had someone in the jury pool yesterday, I 11 don't think she was on the panel, but she mentioned my 12 husband has black lung disease. That is from working 13 in the coal mines. You get so much dust in there, you 14 develop something called black lung. It is scarring. 15 With asbestosis it is actually called white 16 lung disease because asbestos is generally white, and 17 people like asbestos miners who work with this stuff, 18 some of them develop white lung or asbestosis. 19 It was also known in this country back in 20 the '30s that these asbestos textile workers, usually 21 it was in the South, they had a lot of people working