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Yes, in fact asbestos is still mined and marketed today: https://youtu.be/cy3piCUPIkc https://youtu.be/cy3piCUPIkc

• userbinator 8y ago
  Only white asbestos (also known as Chrysotile) --- and the great number of people who have been exposed to large amounts of it and lived long healthy lives certainly makes one wonder; AFAIK it's only the other types, particularly blue asbestos, which are unanimously carcinogenic and the industry stopped using them a long time ago, but the effects from that (and contamination of white asbestos with the other types) have continued and led the majority of fears. This article is worth reading: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581056/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581056/
  • dboreham 8y ago
    In the case of Mesothelioma I believe there's a fair amount of evidence that you need both : 1) Asbestos exposure and 2) to be a smoker. This might explain why some people exposed to asbestos remain healthy. https://www.mesothelioma.com/blog/authors/staff/smoking-asbestos-and-asbestosis-increases-risk-for-lung-cancer.htm https://www.mesothelioma.com/blog/authors/staff/smoking-asbe...