I was told that there was not an instance of asbestosis or asbestos related cancer that did not also include smoking. The asbestos fibers need to get stuck in your lungs to cause the irritation and the tar from the tobacco provides that.
Contradiction and correction will be appreciated.
I have also heard that the risk of asbestos either exclusively or overwhelmingly presented to smokers. The article fails to mention whether she smoked or not. (At any time she was exposed to the tainted talc.)
Hypothetically, if out of the tens of thousands of cancer cases, 99.9% of them smoked, then there would really be only tens, instead of tens of thousands, of purely JNJ-caused cases, which would have a different liability profile.
Although knowingly concealing the contamination from the general public should be prosecutable as intentional misrepresentation.
A long time ago, I read a study that exposure to gupsum had an increased the likelihood of getting lung cancer is 10% If a person smokes, lung cancer is about 8%.
A person who works in a gypsum manufacturing plant and smokes has an 80% greater risk of lung cancer.
That’s why plants that use gypsum will not hire smokers.
“Contradiction and correction will be appreciated.”
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Though I do not have any evidence, I would find that highly unlikely.
Sheer numbers would dictate otherwise. That would be like saying every miner/ship welder/ roofing person/ repairman who died of asbestos was a smoker.
Not likely. Not likely at all...