Video: Old Promotional Film For Asbestos
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www.searchmesothelioma.net Both the government and corporate industry used promotional newsreel type films during the 1950s and 1960s to promote the application and widespread use of asbestos products. These films were instrumental to marketing asbestos and generating acceptance by the public. Since the early 1900s, asbestos was known to cause illness and disease in workers who handled the material. Even second-hand contact with asbestos can result in a cancer known as mesothelioma. Due to foreknowledge of the danger and not telling their workers, many corporations have since gone bankrupt from paying out billions in court settlement claims against them.
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February 7th, 2010 at 9:07 am
Wow, = this is very interesting!! I guess people would rather pretend it would not affect them.
February 7th, 2010 at 9:19 am
@silver76 Don’t be so stupid, (and learn your comma spacing).
Over many years asbestos tends to break up and crack, thus releasing fibers. We have many cracked and wared boards with dust. Our roof has many cracks from earthquakes over the years and the ground sparkles from the roof type of cement (due to the added glass) showing that the asbestos in the roof has being disturbed.
I remember touching that stuff and breaking it off the roof as a little kid.
Wear and tear releases fibers.
February 7th, 2010 at 9:42 am
I have friends today that are very ill from inhaling the dust from asbestos. They work in renovating old homes or tuck-pointing. This stuff doesn’t go away. It’s still in the concrete and the siding. Even though Asbestos is not used today it is still all around us.
Please please please, warn all that work in these fields to take precautions and wear filtering protective masks!!!!!
February 7th, 2010 at 9:58 am
my dad died from this awful product yesterday
February 7th, 2010 at 10:48 am
god you are dense
show me the millions suffering from mesothelioma i bet you cant
i wish they still made transite siding and wallboard
February 7th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Asbestos is perfectly safe until it is cut or broken up releasing particles into the air,for it to have a deleterious effect you have to have worked with asbestos,cutting,drilling it etc for a long time before it will have any long term effect on you.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
all them people that handled it in that video will be dead now, or be dyeing of lung cancer.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Oh my god! *gasp* Is that asbestos???
February 7th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I’m making an Asbestos Pendant for a necklace tomorrow, and i’ll wear it round my neck! I triangle of asbestos concrete by the way!
February 7th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
touch it, smell it, taste it. its all good!!!!
February 7th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Here Finland, workers who worked with asbestos smoked, because they believed that it prevents getting asbestos to lungs. They were wrong.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
actually pliny the elder observed the harmful effects in ANCIENT ROME. And there was plenty of evidence about its toxicity around the turn of the century when it became heavily mined
February 7th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
which is why they didn’t include a category for “health and toxicity”. I hope they get something out of stem-cell research soon.
February 7th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
We better worry about living near granite. The dirt from granite will give you silicosis.
There was problems with breathing to much of any type of dust. The siding would not give off dust unless you were cutting it. The insulation would give off dust in wind. The pipe wrapping will give off dust if you are installing it. The people who worked with it were the most in danger. If masks had been used that would have kept the issue to a minimum as used in hard rock mining.
February 7th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
People knew that asbestos was harmful since the 40s, and the people making these videos were almost certainly aware that the safety of asbestos was in question.
February 7th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
It is the constant irritation of the fibers in the lungs that lead to cellular change – thus causing cancer and inhibition of the apoptosis pathway of type 1 and 2 pneumocytes.
February 7th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
I understand the video, but these people didn’t have any idea about the long term health effects of asbestos. THe editing of this video makes it seem like this was some type of deception to sell their product whilst they knew it was bad for the lungs. Just my take on it. Either way it’s nasty stuff. Just think about all the hormones and antibiotics in your milk! Who knows what will come about 30-40 years from now. antibiotic resistance and 10 year old girls with DD breasts…
February 7th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Remember, if you dont disturb it, its harmless, im assuming your in the construction field… do you do many renovations? there are ways of avoiding it but if it needs to be removed professionally, then it should be, it should NEVER be attempted to be removed by the average man
February 7th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
man never work around that, on the bright side it usually takes frequent high exposures to get mesothelioma. I quit my last job (im an electrical apprentice) because my boss tried to get me to go in a house to rewire a kitchen and the walls were filled with vermiculite (a loosefill insulation that looks like little worms) it contains tremolite asbestos….where do you work? you have the right to refuse unsafe work… and if your boss is making u go into it he can get in a lot of shit
February 7th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Most people have some asbestos in their lungs until about 15 years ago the average person breathed in around 20,000 fibres a day from ambient exposure
February 7th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
I work around asbestos from time to time and it scares the shit out of me. I’ve accepted the fact that I may already have it in my lungs.
February 7th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
I’d like to know if asbestos IS the rock or if it’s the fibers inside the rock.
February 7th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
And the irony is that the scientist you see in this video died of cancer.
February 7th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
People seem to think asbestos is a toxin, its better classed as a carcinogenic material. It invokes cancer, because its fibers are soo small and durable that when collected in the lungs it can cause cells to mutate, rather than to dye. If by chance a mutated cell has its automatic death code mutated – its cancer.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
I do believe that the product that they are talking about here is “transite”. It really is very effective at it’s job and lasts forever. It isn’t friable and is extremely strong. Therefor, it poses no serious health risks. Now, magnesium carbonate/asbestos (AKA “mag”) is some bad shit.
February 7th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
How much money should I give my daughter to spend on her birthday?