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To be fair, the link between asbestos and cancer wasn't discovered until the 1970's. The tabaco industry has doen some pretty rotten, stupid things; but this was just ignorance.

When I was a kid you could still buy sheets of asbestos in the local hardware store. I used some to line a shoe box. I'd found an old tube AM radio chassi, and wanteted a fireproof box to keep in (tubes get hot). I thought myself quite clever at the time.
 

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To be fair, the link between asbestos and cancer wasn't discovered until the 1970's. The tabaco industry has doen some pretty rotten, stupid things; but this was just ignorance.

When I was a kid you could still buy sheets of asbestos in the local hardware store. I used some to line a shoe box. I'd found an old tube AM radio chassi, and wanteted a fireproof box to keep in (tubes get hot). I thought myself quite clever at the time.
When I was a kid, I was in an art class at my local library and they made modelling compound out of loose asbestos fibre. We used it just like modelling clay.
 

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