pterrok -> RE: If you were Born before 1975 (5/3/2004 8:45:47 PM)
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In the basement of my childhood house in Detroit, the pipes leading from the furnace were wrapped in plastered asbestos! (There was one section where it was cut out to expose the pipe, so I could see the corrugations and it was exactly like the heating pads you used on bunsen burners in lab class.) Anyway, when we would roller-skate (strap on skates, not in-line!) down there in the summer we would sometimes hit the pipes with a broomstick to make it 'snow'. Sure it was mostly regular dust and plaster dust, but...<g> Still alive, still kicking, no health problems, same with my four siblings...My brother still owns the house, I wonder if he ever COULD sell it. It's a shame that bad science--blue asbestos, NOT white was the subject of the original study--could be used as a scheme to get rich for, well, you fill in the blank! [;)]
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