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Shawn Wilson wrote:
> "tilvios" <toxaristhrasoe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1147447529.133706.140650@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>
> >> > Remember when it was a GOOD idea to use asbestos in a home?
> >>
> >>
> >> Still is.  Studies that showed asbestos was harmful were on asbestos
> >> miners,
> >> with really huge exposure rates.  No study has ever shown that exposure
> >> to
> >> basic asbestos insulation is harmful.
> >>
> >
> > Wrong!
>
>
> Well, no, I'm not.
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> > When asbestos fibres become airborne, they will lodge in your lungs.
> > Your body has no way to expel them.  Very, very bad idea you have about
> > small exposure being harmless.  I know from being a home owner, I sand,
> > saw, and drill through stuff at will.  Particles of asbestos could
> > become airborne by such activities.  Smokers have to be very wary as
> > the two risk factors together are way worse than by themselves.
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> And we get back to my point- no study has ever shown that such exposure is
> harmful.
>

My guess is you are full of shit.  It's not my field of expertise, but
I'm an IT guy in an industrial company.  I've been required to have
annual asbestos training in the past, and the experts in the field say
there are no safe exposure limits to this stuff when the fibres are air
borne.  How can you refute this about a known carsinegen (sp?) that
your body can't expel?  It embeds in your tissues and is there until
you die.  If you want this stuff in your home, please do all home
repairs yourself so you don't expose any contractors to this stuff.




>
> > I'm glad you aren't in charge of standards and codes for construction.
>
> Because otherwise inexpensive and highly effective solutions might be used
> instead of expensive and less effective ones?

Whatever.  The material was banned for a reason.  Of course you know
better than everyone else I guess.