PEDIATRICS Vol. 77 No. 3 March 1986, pp. A106
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MILLIONS OF ASBESTOS-EXPOSED CHILDREN

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One obvious lesson to be learned from the fifty-year asbestos-disease saga is that a society that cannot sum up the sense to protect the lungs and the lives of its workers cannot hope to protect the lungs and the lives of its other citizens, including its children. Specifically, if we had been able to muster up the courage and the conviction to safeguard the health of our asbestos workers back in the nineteen-thirties and nineteen-forties when the first serious warnings about asbestos-disease hazard were issued, we surely would not have allowed asbestos to be used in thousands of school buildings that were constructed between 1959 and 1972, and would thus not be faced today with the prospect of spending billions of dollars to decontaminate these schools of asbestos or with the anxiety of wondering what past exposure will mean for the future well-being of the millions of children who have been attending them.


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