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Please stop the ride, I want off (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's great-grandpa.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

My mother (a boomer) died of an asbestos cancer (one of the better kinds of asbestos deaths) because her mother used asbestos heat spreaders on the stove

Those were asbestos cloth and they slowly disintegrated during use (between the stove and the pans) putting asbestos fibres into the air

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean it wasn't banned until the 70s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's still in use in many parts of the world
Russia is the biggest asbestos exporter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And it used to be Australia.

Everything there is trying to kill you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Depends on where you live. In some countries it wasn't banned until the 80s, 90s, or even later.