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1 pathologists called by the plaintiffs. Page 4006 2 I asked him, would it be fair to say that 3 your opinion is that the background rate for 4 mesothelioma in the general population would be 5 somewhere in the neighborhood of one to two cases per 6 million per year? 7 And he said yes. One to two cases per 8 million people per year. 9 Dr. Hammar said something else that is 10 pretty interesting though. He agreed that the 11 estimates prepared by Dr. Nicholson that say that 12 between the years of 1940 and 1979 six and a half 13 million people worked as automobile mechanics in this 14 country. Dr. Hammar agreed with that estimate. 15 He also stated that if you looked at the 16 number of people alive today, that number would 17 probably be higher. 18 But let's just take the number six and a 19 half million, and let's take Dr. Hammar's own 20 numbers. 21 If you multiply the two cases per million