My Dad worked in heavy industry with all types of dangerous materials.
One Thanksgiving, we hosted the extended family and baked a turkey
that was so large that the oven door would not close.
Dad had some asbestos material, sort of like rough cardboard that he wrapped around
the open door to keep the heat in.
The turkey was delicious and I’m still around to tell about it 75 years later.
Cancer was not caused by physical contact with asbestos.
The cancer resulted from breathing the minute asbestos slivers present when asbestos was roughed up or broken down. The actual disease is called mesothelioma and results from the insoluble asbestos slivers embedded in lung tissue as a result of breathing air containing the asbestos breakdown.
Lawyers got ahold of it and extrapolated the danger far, far beyond reality . They filed a laws suit and won. The asbestos companies were required to put up millions and millions into a fund from which claims could be paid. And, of course, each claim was attached to a lawyers bill.
Presently, all that money has not been claimed. There are ads from law firms that specialized in asbestos claims still today soliciting clients. The old men running those firms are going to die knowing all that money is still unclaimed and they didn’t get it