According to the EPA:

Health Effects: 

The most dangerous asbestos fibers are too small to be visible. After they are inhaled, they can remain and accumulate in the lungs. Asbestos can cause lung cancer, mesothelioma (a cancer of the chest and abdominal linings), and asbestosis (irreversible lung scarring that can be fatal). Symptoms of these diseases do not show up until many years after exposure began. Most people with asbestos-related diseases were exposed to elevated concentrations on the job; some developed disease from exposure to clothing and equipment brought home from job sites.

 According to: Congressional testimony

Funny how the website for the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) has no mention what-so-ever to asbestos being a problem at the Capitol, the current AOC is a Bush appointee.

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John Thayer, a pipefitter-welder and supervisor of the 10-man power plant tunnel crew which maintains the heating and cooling systems beneath the U.S. Capitol testified. Mr. Thayer, who works for the Architect of the Capitol (AOC), said he and his crew have been exposed to asbestos on the job.“Just over a year ago, we found out that the AOC had been misleading us for years about the extent of our workplace exposure to asbestos,” Thayer said. “We asked to see the medical records from our annual employment physicals conducted by the Office of Attending Physician. My own records stated that my lung age was 118 years old. I was 33 at the time. No one ever told me this: on the contrary, every year the doctor gave me a paper saying I was cleared to work in the tunnels. . . Even worse, the Architect had let us carry deadly asbestos home in our clothes every day for years, without telling us that this posed a real risk to our wives and children.” Satan’s Whip dvdrip

According to the ADAO (Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization) & Mr. Michael R. Harbut, MD, MPH, FCCP, Co-Director, Karmanos Cancer Institute’s National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers. 

Check-out their website at:  www.AsbestosDiseaseAwareness.org

“Although their  (asbestos-caused diseases) significance has often successfully been obscured in the public debate, through political and financial issues raised by those who profit from asbestos, the fact of the matter is that asbestos fibers are agents of death.”  “There is no such thing as a safe level of exposure to asbestos fibers; each and every fiber represents an increased risk of unnecessary death and unnecessary suffering.”

ASBESTOS EXPOSURE CAUSES MESOTHELIOMA!

ADAO estimates that the occurrence of asbestos-related diseases, including mesothelioma, lung cancer, other related cancers, and asbestosis, continues to increase.  Studies estimate that 10,000 victims in the United States, and 100,000 victims worldwide will die of an asbestos-related disease(s) annually over the next decade.    

 

Call to Action

HOW TO CALL:

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Contact both of your U.S. Senators.  Call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.  Ask to be connected to your Senator’s office.  If you don’t know your Senators’ names, they can help you find out by giving them your zip code.  Or go online to http://www.senate.gov to find your U.S. Senators’ office phone numbers and call them directly.

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WHAT TO SAY:   Ask the person who answers to please log your message for your Senator.  Suggested message:

My name is ___________ and I live in __________, ___ City/state).  I strongly support both the Senate and House Ban Asbestos Bills.  Futher, I strongly oppose ANY EXCEPTIONS TO THE BAN ASBESTOS BILL!!!  BAN ALL ASBESTOS!!!    Preventing exposure is the only way to eliminate asbestos –caused diseases like MESOTHELIOMA.

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