Fatal Deception: The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos Is

Fatal Deception: The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos Is Killing America
- Michael Bowker,Book,The terrifying true story of how asbestos is killing America
STILL LEGAL, STILL LETHAL

Most Americans mistakenly believe asbestos was banned long ago. In fact, it is still legal and can still kill you. Its microscopic fibers cause painful and incurable diseases.
Despite being outlawed in nearly every other industrialized country, asbestos remains a legal component of more than three thousand common products in the United States. These include toasters, washers/dryers, ovens, building supplies, and automobile brakes. Our confusion about asbestos is no accident.
Fatal Deception is a chilling exposÃ© of the asbestos industry's successful seventy-year campaign to hide the deadly effects of its products from the American people. The stakes are high -- tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Michael Bowker rips the cover off the decades of deceit, including the treachery in Libby, Montana, site of the most deadly environmental disaster in U.S. history. He also unveils a startling and ongoing cover-up at Ground Zero -- where thousands of New Yorkers may still be suffering from exposure to dangerous levels of asbestos fibers.
Compelling, enraging, and very timely, Fatal Deception is not just a fascinating story, it is a plea to the government and to the American people to help sponsor research into asbestos-related diseases -- and a call to arms to ban asbestos now.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2003-09-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780743251433

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2003-09-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780743251433

Fatal Deception: The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos Is Killing America