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Page 274 1 What they said is this -- and I am going to 2 show you this throughout the whole trial going back 3 early on. 4 Hey, everybody, you people working in those 5 asbestos textile factories, if you put in ventilation 6 and keep the dust down, you won't get this disease 7 asbestosis, because it is like coal miners disease. 8 I grew up using coal putting it in, and I 9 was exposed to dust. The guys in my neighborhood 10 because I am from the northeastern part of 11 Pennsylvania, the coal region, there was dust in the 12 mines and they had black lung because they worked with 13 tons of it. 14 They said the same thing here. If you keep 15 the dust down, you won't get asbestosis. They didn't 16 say ban it, don't use it. That was the thinking back 17 then. It is not the thinking now. 18 No, not now, because now we know in 1996, 19 and I am saying we know in 1996, I know in 1996 20 because I read the medical textbooks. 21 Some of their doctors that they are going to