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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 June DOC NMA161 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION The Environment Monthly Article - Asbestos - How do You People Against Such an Omnipresent Health Hazard THE ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENT June 1970 MONTHLY ASBESTOS YOU DO PEOPLE AGAINST SUCH AN OMNIPRESENT OMNIPRESENT HEALTH HAZARD The new technological man carries strontium in his bones iodine- 131 in his thyroid DDT in his fat and bestos in his as- lungs When Dr. Barry Commoner first made that famous environmental assessment we didn't quite appreciate the tos in such fast place of asbes- company Now we do and lung cancer than the general population Most spraying regulations are aimed at prohibiting all visible emissions of asbestos from construction sites And that's the devil of it Because very fine particles visible to the human eye and difficult to in- detect with instruments fill the air More- over zir monitoring stations in given urban area produce very scary readings The equivalent of say a million fibres we may we almost wish we didn't For the presence be found in a cubic meter of air far from a construction site Closer to such tee in the air of asbestos fibres by the uncount- a site the asbestos count may be ten times as great able trillions constitutes a ee ghastly health particularly particularly New York City is literally sitting in a eee menace cloud of asbestos testified Dr. William What's it doing in the air As usual it's tein Hospi- there to endanger people because it is the Nicholson physicist for Mount Si ai a essential ingredient in a tal's Environmental Science Laboratory protect them process desined to Asbestos fibres are And another authority Dr. Robert N. Rickles on steel sprayed has said flat out that it might be the smart members in new construction construction to ireproof them And thing to eliminate ashesins and find some- they can be lethal If you inhale an inordinate amount of asbestos thing safer for fireproofing officials never ones to Even union for a sufficient period you become yield their men's suscep- tible to jobs easily have had it with asbestos Jacob mesothelioma a fatal form of Novak whose New York local insulates lung cancer of the outer lining of the Some after asbestos has been ripes evieviddenece nce 548gests 548gests Unto Unto Unto sprayed said recent- particies when combined with a gascous poilulani ly at hearing am not here to destroy a trade but after trigger synergystic effect For burying more and more of example an insulation worker who also is a cigaret my men I know what ever the cost of the bazards are What- smoker is 92 times more develop replacing sprayed asbestos likely to develop develop develop no one can argue argue it isn't worth it And so the trade go More and more it will be the net environmental gain timidetermines the right technological choice On such a basis who could argue against banishing asbestos _ _ - - ee - Yom aa ~ . i. 3 REI