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1 whether all types of asbestos fibers cause the type of
2 cell injury that we have been discussing here today?
3 A Yes.
4 Q And what is that opinion?
5 A That all of the fibers we know of,
6 chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite all
7 are capable of causing the diseases we have
8 discussed.
9 Q Does that include the type we know as
10 tremolite?
11 A Yes.
12 Q Doctor, do you have an opinion based on a
13 reasonable degree of scientific certainty whether or
14 not all sizes of those asbestos types are capable of
15 causing the cell injury that you have described here
16 today?
17 A
Yes, they certainly are. There havebeen
18 experiments done showing that longer fibers can be
19 retained in the lung for longer periods of time than
20 shorter ones, so if you could be exposed to all long
21 fibers, it might be worse than being exposed to all