A US Navy 'ghost ship, which contains asbestos and other pollutants, arrives in the UK to be broken up From BSE to bird' flu, one of the most conspicuous features of our modern world has been the ...
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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 asbestos industry is still thriving, unfortunately due in part to Canada’s contributions. Researchers called for an independent inquiry on McGill’s asbestos history, but instead got a conference.
Asbestos seemed like a miracle product: It was fire-resistant, an excellent insulator and dirt cheap. Canada’s infrastructure relied heavily on asbestos from the early 1900s until it became clear that ...
Most of us know asbestos as ‘that puffy stuff it cost a fortune to take out of the walls of public schools.’ Yes, it’s annoyingly toxic, but this substance also has a long and sometimes bizarre ...
BLOOMINGTON - Ron Thacker only worked at Bloomington’s UNARCO plant for a couple of years as a young man in the early 1950s, but it left an indelible imprint on his life — and his lungs. Thacker, now ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELIZABETH JACKSON: If you caught Foreign Correspondent on ABC TV last Tuesday, you might have been as ...
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