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I accunn 4, tigt Forms Lung Deposits ST0555030 Linked, Cities An *. '.* * y* '*i v... . Banning Its Use BT MICHAEL KNIGHT . ing difficulty In breathing OmKMNmtwvica called asbestosis, is incurabl New York -- Several tons of and often is fatal. it are sprayed into the air in Persons exposed to ubesto American cities every year. have, In addition, a muc Those who breathe its micro* higher rate of lung and intesti scopic particles will carry it nal cancer than people neve with them throughout life. exposed to it. Smoking drasti And sometimes, 20 or 30 years .. caily increases the risk; per later, the deadly effects -- in* sou who smoke cigarette ability to breathe or long and are exposed to the dus *- cancer -- begin to be felt. have a lung cancer rate 9. The substance is asbestoc, a ", times higher, than the statist; mineral whose' fireprooffibers cal norm.................. have long been matted into felt-like sheets, and is now in* Wives Eadaagered creasingly being sprayed on Sven the wives of men whr the steel beams of'high rise wort with asbestos are endan buildings. Regulations Started Cities across the country, often with the help of the As* bestos Workers Unions, are beginning to regulate or ban 'its use as the deadly and de gered by tbe dust their bus bands bring borne on tbeir clothes, according to Miltot Goldberg, an environment! field engineer in the Alleghe ny County Department 01 Health in Pittsburgh. layed effects of contact with It . "You can walk down a are becoming known. street where asbestos has been Most endangered are the sprayed," be said, "and it waters who Install asbestos may not affect you for 20 or sheets around boilers and 30 years." ; steam pipes, or who spray it Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, dlre on automobile brakes or onto tor of tbe Environmental Sci* steel beams during construe* -cnees Laboratory at Mount tion. ' .* ...... ;*hiai Medical Center here, But increasingly there -is and tbe national health au* worry that the large amounts .' thority on asbestos, said that allowed .to escape .into the air u long ago as 1924 it wu dis during the'spaying may Id* covered that people who work " feet thousands of residents- \.. * with asbestos developed . Vastly Dangerous* scarred lungs. It took almost When the new Missouri 30 snort yean of study, he State Office Building in Kan said, to link it with cancer. su City was sprayed recent Cities Baa Spraying |W> ly, "the stuff blew all over the Selikoff. speaking.at city devil," according to Richard hearings here that resulted in \lx Maupin, business manager of regulations on spraying asbes find ed into Nrhich marc lifacts I there tral ia Jff.Asbestos Workers Local No. "Some of it went all the way downtown." he said. "The stuff is really danger ous. People can see h, but they don't know it's harmful." An estimated SO percent of the asbestos used in spraying Is. lost into the air, according to industry publications. tos, said that "every person in New York has some asbestos hihlalungs." ' . Boston and Chicago last May became the first cities in the country'to ban totally the spraying of asbestos. New York banned it from dty projects a month later, and has severely restricted its use, as have Los Angeles. De Forms Deposits troit, and Philadelphia. Other Inhalation of the asbestos areas throughout the country dust forms deposits on the are considering bans or regu lungs that are never absorbed lation on sonvine.