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1 lawyers talk all day, and you take two aspirin, Page 323 2 hopefully, your headache is going to go away. 3 If you take 10 aspirin, your headache is 4 going to go away, but you are going to have a 5 stomachache. If you take 100 aspirin, you are 6 probably going to kill yourself. 7 That is what we are talking about. The 8 threshold just doesn't apply to asbestos. It applies 9 to medications, dust, fumes, gases, liquids used in 10 the workplace. 11 And examples of it would include your 12 exposures to lead or arsenic or things like that. You 13 always try to keep the level of exposure of things 14 like that down to a minimum. 15 In 1946, there was an organization called 16 the American Conference of Governmental and Industrial 17 Hygienists, or the ACGIH for short. They published a 18 pamphlet that contained lots of TLVs in them. 19 Who comprised this organization? It was 20 comprised of governmental and industrial hygienists, 21 just like the name says, people who worked for the