Tax Man
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I like your imagination. Not much is true of what you said but I know where the ground fibers from brake shoes go, into my lungs when I was a truck repair man. I also worked construction and worked with transite pipe which is asbestos and cement. You have to machine the ends in the ditch for perfect fit and all the dust goes into the lungs or the ground.Mesothelioma is the cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Brake pads and clutch linings have not used asbestos for many years. They are comprised of other elements.
What do you think happened to those tons and tons of asbestos particles that were ground off of the brake linings for decades? Do you seriously think they magically disappeared or something?
Not hardly. The ground around every road, street, and highway in this country is saturated with asbestos particles and fibers, just waiting to be swept up by the wind and carried to all four corners of the country.
How about the asbestos they used in construction? They used it in everything: wiring, appliances, ceiling panels, insulation. How much of that asbestos dust ended scattered across the countryside when those houses were demolished or burned down? Perhaps it wasn't asbestos, but you do know how many people have died prior to the World Trade Center bombings, because of the massive cloud of dust it created, right?
The chances are that with every breath of air you take, you're breathing in not only asbestos fibers, but other things as well: What about all those particles of Strontium-90, Cesium-137, and other radioactive elements that were swept up into the upper atmosphere and blanketed the countryside, during the 1950's and 1960's nuclear weapons tests? Do you seriously think that shit just magically "disappeared" or something? All it takes is one minute speck to lodge deep within your lungs and you've got cancer.