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When Lung Cancer Fears Emerged in the 1950s, Kent Put a Filter on their Cigarettes. It Was Made From Asbestos
In the early 1950s, cigarette companies in the US were starting to have a problem. For the first time, large-scale scientific ...
The 1950s brought in a wave of new household products and gadgets, but a lot of them came with hidden dangers. Radioactive toys were sold as novelties, and plenty of furniture and insulation were made ...
PORT LUDLOW — A Port Ludlow woman is one of potentially thousands of U.S. residents who will benefit from a multi-million dollar trust fund created for victims of asbestos poisoning in the late 1940s ...
Question: We recently made a purchase offer on a 60-year old house. When we received the “Form 17” property disclosure statement from the listing agent, we discovered that the house has “asbestos ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: In the 1950s, I worked for a plumber covering pipes with asbestos. In 1976, I lost my entire lung on the left side, operated on at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. From that ...
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