“WHY ASBESTOS?” 1970 ASBESTOS INFORMATION COMMITTEE PROPAGANDA FILM XD52424

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    This film, "Why Asbestos?" was presented by the Asbestos Information Committee, displays the benefits and uses of asbestos in everyday products, and argues that the product is needed to prevent fires. The film was part of a propaganda campaign created by the asbestos industry in the USA and UK to push back against growing public and regulatory sentiment against the use of the product. The AIC and several other organizations were created in early 1970, just as the USA's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began looking into regulating the industry. The goal of the AIC and similar groups was to counteract the growing public attention to and government regulation of asbestos as a serious threat to workers and consumers, to shape public opinion and regulatory policy. Eventually the campaign produced results, with OSHA stipulating that asbestos could continue to be used in a wide variety of consumer products without any warnings about the danger of cancer. This was despite a rich historical literature on asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma dating to early in the 20th century. This is a Unit 7 Film and it was made in association with The Film Producers Guild Ltd.
    This film opens with burning buildings and smoke billowing (0:23). Flame burning the side of a bag (1:06). Asbestos rock (1:33). Asbestos rock fibers (2:18). Asbestos rock fibers under a microscope (2:25). Single asbestos fiber (2:39). Scientific instrument/scale calculates PSI (pounds per square inch) (2:48). Scientific instrument showing asbestos fiber (2:56). Asbestos fibers washed with water (3:12). Pot with a fire (3:22). Cloth with asbestos covers a burning pot on the stove (3:26). Machine produces fabric with asbestos (3:28). Machine threads asbestos into yarn (4:08). Colorful long sleeved shirts (4:33). Machine pressing down on shirt (4:41). Asbestos cloth made on a machine line (4:47). Asbestos inside a steam valve (4:51). Pipes with asbestos (4:57). Oil heater (5:03). Machine weaves asbestos fabric (5:11). Welder wearing asbestos gloves (5:20). Steal worker (5:21). Glass worker in a suit made of asbestos fabric (5:30). Firefighters putting out a fire in suits made from asbestos fabric (5:41). The words, “Safety Curtain '' (6:14). Industrial faucet spewing water into a slush (6:26). Foamy substance mixed with cement (6:29). Asbestos cement (6:36). Boats on water (7:05). Siding of a building with asbestos (7:17). Roofs made with asbestos (7:24). Tunnel (7:45). Pipes (8:03). Building materials (8:08). Machine making a pipe with asbestos cement (8:13). Asbestos pipes (8:33). Pipe being lowered into the ground (8:57). Building with steaming pipes (9:04). Worker installing an asbestos cover (9:06). Industrial building (9:11). Roof of a pool that has been treated with asbestos (9:24). Man diving into a pool (9:46). Asbestos getting mixed (9:53). Asbestos pressed into smooth boards (9:56). Inside of a massive building (10:02). Inside of a supermarket (10:09). Ships (10:27). Asbestos in insulating boards on ships (10:32). Telephone (10:43). Large pipes (10:45). Asbestos board nailed into place (10:49). Cutting and drilling of asbestos boards (10:52). Clock on wall (11:07). Door opens to a room with a piano and sheet music (11:14). Bedroom (11:25). Piano and sheet music (11:33). Fire burning furniture (11:39). Fire burning down a building (11:46). Man with clip board observes (11:56). Fire consuming a home (12:09). Man standing on a ladder (12:16). Crane carrying logs (12:32). Crane (12:36). Asbestos bearing (12:42). Satellite (12:53). Rocket taking off (12:37). Jet pipe of a rocket (13:02). Aircraft engine starts (13:08). BAC One-Eleven plane landing (13:10). Propellers on a large ship (13:17). Ship propellor (13:29). Life boat storage rack (13:31). Trolley (13:35). Bottom of a locomotive (13:44). Gears on different machines (13:49). Dump truck (13:57). Man operating machinery (13:59). Steam rollers (14:00). Man presses a button (14:02). A machine moving rapidly (14:14). RPM gauge (14:22). Brake light (14:23). Machine gears catch fire (14:25). Cars moving on a busy street (14:28). Race cars on track (14:46). Morris Minor car (15:15). Car battery (15:28). Engine smoking (15:45). Morris Minor driving (15:49). Car battery catches on fire (16:00). Foot presses down on the brake (16:07). Car catches fire (16:17). Asbestos cloth puts out the flames (16:36).
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  • @sid2112
    @sid2112 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +255

    To be fair, that stuff is a miracle material. To bad it'll kill ya, because it was incredibly useful.

    • @ew332
      @ew332 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So will breathing the chemtrailed air the US military and private pilots spray us with everyday.

    • @jamescooley5744
      @jamescooley5744 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      As long as you can seal it, so the fibers don't come out, asbestos is not a problem. The UK use to make roofing panels and buildings out of it.

    • @rogerbartlet5720
      @rogerbartlet5720 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The stuff was used almost everywhere. According to the anti-asbestos propaganda, given it's toxicity most of the world should be dead or dying from it by now.

    • @Modeltnick
      @Modeltnick 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jamescooley5744Asbestos shingles were very popular here after WW2. It was a binding agent for concrete and was pretty safe like that.

    • @teri2466
      @teri2466 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@rogerbartlet5720Just about everyone who mined it is. And plenty who didn't. YTA

  • @user-qm7nw7vd5s
    @user-qm7nw7vd5s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    “Fiber so fine, that care must be taken to avoid inhaling them”. Interesting…

    • @fjp912
      @fjp912 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If only it were that easy.

    • @nyki7fykxtjxyi
      @nyki7fykxtjxyi หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s not just lung cancer asbestos causes all kinds of cancer

    • @citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936
      @citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@fjp912 ahem..... hem.... cough cough.... yeah

  • @therealelizafox
    @therealelizafox หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    "And the ability to spray it on an existing building must have saved many a headache."
    And destroyed many a lung.

  • @pike8123
    @pike8123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

    * many humans were harmed in the making of this film.

    • @mikedfgfj
      @mikedfgfj หลายเดือนก่อน

      * many humans were harmed in the making of this world.

  • @kamakaziozzie3038
    @kamakaziozzie3038 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    As a 30 year electrical contractor, I have personally known two other electricians that have passed from Mesothelioma- right in my town. Neither was old. one late 40’s, the other mid fifties.
    Kinda scary. Asbestos is everywhere electricians work. I’ve found the problem most pervasive in attics spaces..it’s wrapped around water pipes and furnace exhaust vents.

    • @citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936
      @citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is finally customary to test for asbestos...... rock wool, drywall, furnace pipe and duct insulation etc....if structure predates 1980, Contractors should ROUTINELY test before disturbing old construction materials for this and lead.

  • @karp6130
    @karp6130 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I used to work in the H+V industry and would discover situations of old and damaged degraded asbestos linings in air heater ducts in schools and offices. The dust being blown all over the building.

  • @keithalaird
    @keithalaird 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    I graduated from engineering school in 1978. In college classes, Asbestos was still a miracle product. About 1981 or so, my 3000 person employer herded all 250 mechanical engineers into a conference room and told us “Thou shall no longer specify asbestos. Period end of discussion

    • @rogueninja1685
      @rogueninja1685 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Even this presenter said something like great care must be taken not to breath it" after describing the slivers of rock dividing 100 times less than a hair. Is the 30 millionths?

    • @b43xoit
      @b43xoit 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@rogueninja1685 I heard him say "breathe", not "breath", which sounds different.

    • @c3h50n023
      @c3h50n023 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      For economic and supply reasons every pharma company i have worked for has made the same decree for the use of Helium

  • @jasm.5823
    @jasm.5823 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    I never knew it was such a miracle product. Too bad that our feeble airsacks can’t handle it.

    • @MarioMastar
      @MarioMastar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well yeah, generally getting anything rough in our bodies has the effect you'd expect. But the wisest people know how to use it while minimizing risk. Too bad most people just want to pretend thier invincible to danger becasue they read too many glory stories and thus the stuff has to be banned. I feel if used today, people would probably deliberately scratch and sniff it like the "Covid parties" teens held and other stupid things like that.

    • @annpeerkat2020
      @annpeerkat2020 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @jasm.5823 when you look closely at it, tobacco actually has a lot of beneficial attributes too.

    • @mankind8088
      @mankind8088 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No a miracle if it kills you

    • @marinzeraja5416
      @marinzeraja5416 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thats why its still being used

    • @Thefox0922
      @Thefox0922 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      *Feeble airsacks*

  • @bloqk16
    @bloqk16 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Whenever a TV commercial comes on to tout its product being _natural_ to imply that it is safe for use or consumption, I always talk back to the TV to say: "Lead and *asbestos* are also natural products!"

    • @linandy1
      @linandy1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      it is natural !

    • @bobbysenterprises3220
      @bobbysenterprises3220 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I was about to say this. But I say asbestos and uranium

    • @b43xoit
      @b43xoit 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Along with nicotine and malathion.

    • @buckadillafilms
      @buckadillafilms 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the TV can hear you

    • @bobbysenterprises3220
      @bobbysenterprises3220 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@b43xoit my brain read a similar looking word that started with M.

  • @MJW60777
    @MJW60777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Companies made bank in the "Great Asbestos Removal Bidding Wars" throughout the 90's Tearing and breaking this stuff out of old schools and hospitals all around NY state. Some companies were cutting corners using inferior or no air filtration, no plastic tarps, coverings and lining, they caused more damage in the removal by releasing all the fibers into the air.

    • @nunyab8003
      @nunyab8003 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Looking at YOU Tony and crew!

    • @sid2112
      @sid2112 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@nunyab8003 Session 9! Good flick!

    • @TrapperAaron
      @TrapperAaron 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yea this was a late 90s contractors wet dream. Go in to put down some tile. Oh no u got asbestos linoleum. Here's ur new bill, and my new Dodge 3500 4 door diesel pickup. Made allot of money off of people's fear of this stuff. Even when u tell them if u leave it alone it won't cause any problems people still tweak out and want it gone at any cost. And IT COSTS lemme tell u!

    • @MJW60777
      @MJW60777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sid2112 Truth👍

    • @MJW60777
      @MJW60777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@TrapperAaron To have even a partial business ownership in the removal of asbestos and mold back then 🤑

  • @Kref3
    @Kref3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    10:50 easy to cut and drill. wonderful idea and good to know.
    I am sold, I‘ll line my walls with it.

    • @BedsitBob
      @BedsitBob หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you need to cut or drill it, drench it with water first.

  • @ChrisAthanas
    @ChrisAthanas 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Now I understand why this was everywhere

    • @DeadKoby
      @DeadKoby หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was really a super-substance for insulation and fire resistance.

    • @caerleon87
      @caerleon87 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In the uk there are/were about 3000 different building products that contained asbestos

  • @stephenellis3430
    @stephenellis3430 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    By the 1970s when this promo was made the asbestos industry was fully aware of the harm it could do the lungs of humans. But continued to make the case there was no alternative.
    Those poor people working in that textile factor or those guys drilling and sawing the sheets. This is when the asbestos was most likely to get inhaled and remain in the lungs. A ticking bomb for lung cancer.

    • @stephenellis3430
      @stephenellis3430 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Many people involved in the asbestos industry like the workers lagging the ship pipes featured in this video. They never got any compensation for the crippling lung cancer as they died before they got justice. The industry knew all to well how dangerous the fibres were when airborne and provided very little protection for workers.

    • @MarioMastar
      @MarioMastar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stephenellis3430 Just sad how through the entire last century people sitting comfy in thier chairs would condemn so many people to their deaths and then take all credit for victory or cover up their deaths for failure. And in the turn of the millenium, the only thing that remained are even more people sitting comfy in their chairs wishing others would suffer cause they're bored.

    • @billsimpson604
      @billsimpson604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep, they absolutely knew way back in the 1930's that it could cause cancers. The children who mined it seldom lived to 35 years old. I read the case history of the trial. @@stephenellis3430

    • @ernestsmith3581
      @ernestsmith3581 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When a better alternative to fiberglass is developed, there will be more billion dollar lawsuits.

  • @dreadpenguinlord340
    @dreadpenguinlord340 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Well -- I'm sold. I'll be getting my walls filled and my pipes lined by Friday. Just have to find a vendor...

    • @jimurrata6785
      @jimurrata6785 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I worked on the JohnsManville house.
      It was balloon framed and poured full of vermiculite from the attic to the basement.

  • @ericwotton2046
    @ericwotton2046 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    This stuff really is a great building product, exept for its tendency to kill you.

    • @DrBovdin
      @DrBovdin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Fortunately it only tends to be aggressive towards the builders and eventual dismantlers of the building. As long as you don’t poke the dragon she keeps you safe. If you have asbestos in your house and it’s in a place where you never need to touch it, I would always leave it in situ, and possibly make a note of its presence to be passed on to future inhabitants.

    • @20alphabet
      @20alphabet 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Didn't kill most who were exposed to it.

  • @xxxggthyf
    @xxxggthyf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

    Still the best substance for wrapping any leftover plutonium you have in the fridge.

    • @trainnerd3029
      @trainnerd3029 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      How did I not think of this?? Thank you!

    • @goglowdaddy1686
      @goglowdaddy1686 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You rock! I have been saving leftover plutonium since the nineties, not knowing what to do with it. You have solved the issue.
      Thank you.

    • @xxxggthyf
      @xxxggthyf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We scientists* like to help.
      * May be less scientisty than illustrated levels of scientistiness.

    • @DynamicSeq
      @DynamicSeq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@goglowdaddy1686 I sold mine to north korea...

    • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
      @jed-henrywitkowski6470 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I told you not to mention that.

  • @billmcdonald0256
    @billmcdonald0256 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    In the 1960's We had in grades 3.4.5.Powdered Abestos in our classrooms 😮 Add some water Mix it up in your hands 🙌 To make a paste for art class Making toys Houses 🏘 & dolls 🪆 After drying we would paint 🎨 them..Then take our art work home to show 🤗 Mom 👩

    • @2degucitas
      @2degucitas 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's horrifying

    • @steveb9151
      @steveb9151 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And who can forget eating Asbestos-Frosted Flakes? They're Grrrrrrrrruesome!

    • @acampbell8614
      @acampbell8614 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You just dredged back a memory of mine of doing the exact same thing in the late 60s. It was dark grey fibrous stuff.

  • @HeavyZeppelin68
    @HeavyZeppelin68 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Makes me think of Bart Simpson campaigning for class president with the chant: "More asbestos! More asbestos!"

  • @erikgstewart
    @erikgstewart 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Next: "The Wonders of Uranium at Home" by the British Nuclear Board (1951).

    • @bloqk16
      @bloqk16 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the US, there were some that touted that domiciles could have their own nuclear power electric generators as a means to power the homes.

  • @caseyjones1999
    @caseyjones1999 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    "We didn't get to take a vacation, the lunch break at the asbestos factory, was my vacation" Jarrod Benson

  • @LuciFeric137
    @LuciFeric137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    When working in a metal fab plant, my company asked me to be lowered by forklift in huge annealing oven. It was lined with asbestos bricks, at least 50 years old, to do a repair. No safety equipment at all.

    • @l3p3
      @l3p3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And you are still with us.

    • @othername1000
      @othername1000 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A confined space work environment. Air monitoring and supply, medical evac planned, stand by team for extraction, and whatever else I forgot from when I read the new standards.
      I'd be more worried about working in an oven, hoping somebody wasn't hungover that day. Every so often somebody gets trapped and cooks to death in a food factory.

  • @MrDastardly
    @MrDastardly หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This weekend I’m wearing my asbestos shirt!!

  • @aarond23
    @aarond23 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Very useful, just don't breathe!

    • @mfbfreak
      @mfbfreak 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or do, then it'll even help you to stop breathing!

  • @roberts1938
    @roberts1938 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I wonder why TH-cam includes warnings about tobacco or alcohol but doesn't include warnings about asbestos advertising?
    Nevertheless, the film is very interesting and I had no idea that asbestos was used in so many products, one could say on a massive scale.

    • @bloqk16
      @bloqk16 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I also found it interesting and amazed at all the different ways it could be processed, especially in liquid form, for numerous applications.

  • @FeetusMcCarland
    @FeetusMcCarland 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    I got mesothelioma just from watching this video

    • @goglowdaddy1686
      @goglowdaddy1686 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yup, this stuff is so dangerous, I got ill just reading your comment. Please wrap your comment in an asbestos proof word bag. Thanks.

    • @paul06660
      @paul06660 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I was thinking that after seeing the part where its being processed in the raw and flying through the air lol.

    • @ingvarhallstrom2306
      @ingvarhallstrom2306 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm coughing up my lung as we speak, and I haven't finished the darn video yet.

    • @robertgavin980
      @robertgavin980 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      At least they had the sense not to make things out of tobacco in those days 👀

    • @mankind8088
      @mankind8088 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😭😂🤣😭😂😭😂😂😭🤣😭

  • @jasonsvendsen3917
    @jasonsvendsen3917 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    After watching this not-at-all biased film brought to you by the Asbestos Information Committee, I am convinced. Why are we not using this miracle material everywhere?

    • @MarioMastar
      @MarioMastar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cause no one in this country knows how to think for themselves, so 90% of people would either freak the f8ck out at the mentioning of the name, or deliberately try to kill people with it. Just can't have nice things

    • @annpeerkat2020
      @annpeerkat2020 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @jasonsvendsen3917 wanna buy a cheap house?

    • @ingvarhallstrom2306
      @ingvarhallstrom2306 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a Conspiracy by Big Health to sell more Life.

    • @ernestsmith3581
      @ernestsmith3581 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Besides, fiberglass costs more and will eventually be shown to be just as dangerous.

  • @paul06660
    @paul06660 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    This is prolly the only video ive ever seen that effectively demonstrates just how much asbestos was used everywhere. But seeing the kids play in the pool area constructed with asbestos hits pretty hard.

  • @maha77
    @maha77 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    We had our home insulated with Asbestos in the 70's when I was just a kid. I watched them pump it into our walls. Immediately after our house was filled with a haze of asbestos floating everywhere, for months and months. It looked like floating snow. When I would watch tv in the dark I'd see the air filled with floating particles. My eyes would be burning. My mom was adversely affected and had to stay outside the house for awhile. I'm approaching 60 and am essentially healthy. I do have some health issues but not sure if it's related.

    • @dr.danchallice3888
      @dr.danchallice3888 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      See, it's not as bad as people say.

    • @trainnerd3029
      @trainnerd3029 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@dr.danchallice3888 hey, I have a question… Am I going to hell for laughing uncontrollably at your response?

    • @billsimpson604
      @billsimpson604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Get checked. It is free. You could be in line for some money from the fund set up for asbestos victims. Relatives of asbestos workers are now getting damage awards.

    • @FromSagansStardust
      @FromSagansStardust 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, but find a lawyer who doesn't have a TV commercial about it!@@billsimpson604

    • @Thefox0922
      @Thefox0922 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Please get checked out
      It could save your life if there is anything

  • @paulnicholson1906
    @paulnicholson1906 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    my dad brought the raw rock back from work, we played with it pulling fibers off which was cool.

    • @Thefox0922
      @Thefox0922 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You should get checked out
      It’s free and it could save your life if something is wrong

    • @Katchi_
      @Katchi_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Thefox0922 There is no saving anybody...

    • @Thefox0922
      @Thefox0922 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Katchi_ if lung cancer where to develop its best to catch it early be fore it becomes inoperable

  • @coolbluelights
    @coolbluelights หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    They sure made this video asbestos they could!

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good 👍

  • @crquality2002
    @crquality2002 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is like watching a horror movie in many ways. I can see why it was so popular, but it is scary how it was (and maybe still is) everywhere. I can feel the mesothelioma through my screen.

    • @mbox314
      @mbox314 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If every employee died from asbestos I think they would have outlawed it sooner. Do we even know what precentage of asbestos workers died from exposure?

  • @Onethirtytwo
    @Onethirtytwo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    This should be narrated by Troy McClure.

  • @innercityprepper
    @innercityprepper 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Next up, Lead Paint - Delicious, but deadly!

    • @broadcastmyballs
      @broadcastmyballs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Is that narrated by Troy McClure?

    • @teri2466
      @teri2466 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@broadcastmyballs I miss Phil.

    • @20alphabet
      @20alphabet 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Weak minded people agree.

  • @daveybeee2319
    @daveybeee2319 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Wow they really had this stuff in everything back then. I know the main use was for pipe insulation in cellars, but didnt realize just how wide spread it was.

    • @Kevin75668
      @Kevin75668 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      My grandparent's house was built in the 60's. Asbestos cement siding, asbestos sheeting on the door between the garage and house, asbestos floor tiles, asbestos pipe and ductwork insulation.

  • @quantumleap359
    @quantumleap359 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Read "The Air That Kills", a book about the miners who mined asbestos, and paid the ultimate price.

    • @stephenellis3430
      @stephenellis3430 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Theses a very interesting promo video about asbestos in tarmac during the 1950s. They literally tip bag of the strands into the mixing machines by hand. Apparently it made the road last longer. But must of made so much asbestos dust as the road was used.

  • @craiggilchrist4223
    @craiggilchrist4223 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    If It's too good to be true, then it usually is.

  • @AlbertDongler
    @AlbertDongler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fascinating! Thanks for posting

  • @djosbun
    @djosbun 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    I saw a video last year (a recently made video) of a man in Cuba relining brake shoes with an asbestos-mixed substance. He was working in the Cuba-approved safety apparel: sleeveless t-shirt, brightly colored shorts and flip-flops. He seemed to enjoy cigars while working, too.

    • @user-wy1dl2me2p
      @user-wy1dl2me2p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Blue collar man tough as nails

    • @jpcaretta8847
      @jpcaretta8847 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Officially, He will die from smoking, not asbestos.

    • @59vaughn
      @59vaughn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But only in amurica....

    • @steveb9151
      @steveb9151 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In some places, Casual Friday is every day.

    • @BangersAndMash98
      @BangersAndMash98 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Of course he liked cigars while working, breathing asbestos is dangerous, the cigar is his filter!

  • @jsnsk101
    @jsnsk101 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    One day people will see videos like this about plastics and cell phones and wonder what the heck were they thinking

    • @eddjordan2399
      @eddjordan2399 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      maybe plastic not cell phones unless you mean the crushing phycological scarring smart phones have left due to social media.

    • @arturneland4057
      @arturneland4057 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      In a couple decades this video would be equally absurd: "Why you should love fossil fuels" by PragerU th-cam.com/video/49Teja5YNCo/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUfdGhlIG1vcmFsIGNhc2UgZm9yIGZvc3NpbCBmdWVscw%3D%3D

  • @askhowiknow5527
    @askhowiknow5527 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    All natural mineral fiber that is fireproof?
    They should make cigarette filters out of it.

    • @joeblow8593
      @joeblow8593 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      They did, Kent Micronite from 1952-1954 contained crocidolite asbestos fibers.

    • @georgerobartes2008
      @georgerobartes2008 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      " If the tar don't get you , the asbestos will "

  • @senilyDeluxe
    @senilyDeluxe 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Taking a shot every time he says Asbestos might turn out healthier than the filming of this movie.

  • @cambo1200
    @cambo1200 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This makes my lungs itchy.

  • @KidMetairie
    @KidMetairie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Dorms at my college had sprayed asbestos in the ceilings. One summer around 1987 they sealed it all in some kind of spray sealant. Guys used to bounce golf, tennis, basketballs off it. Surprised we don’t all have lung cancer.
    Those buildings all razed 20 years ago now.

    • @nunyab8003
      @nunyab8003 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tick tick tick

    • @FromSagansStardust
      @FromSagansStardust 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My high school had that. We used to try to get pencils to stick in it. The worst was the gym locker room. We used to throw sneakers and wet towels up at the ceiling an that asbestos fluff would come down in clumps.

    • @CatMom-uw9jl
      @CatMom-uw9jl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A brand-new grade school I attended for a year or so in the 70s had a super-thick version of a popcorn ceiling. The whole school was open plan, with the library in the middle up a short flight of stairs. The taller kids could just reach the ceiling coating from the stairs, where the ceiling angled down, and we all took turns poking at it. We were surprised because it looked soft and fluffy, but felt like styrofoam. It was probably full of asbestos. We were breathing fumes from leaded gasoline every time we were in a car back then, too. I forget if it was Dow or some other company whose slogan was Better Living Through Chemistry. Fun times/s

    • @FromSagansStardust
      @FromSagansStardust 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not positive, but I think it was DuPont.@@CatMom-uw9jl

  • @MedicatedMemory
    @MedicatedMemory 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I used to play in the stuff. The old Victorian i grew up in( built in 1896)was full of it

  • @GTI1dasOriginal
    @GTI1dasOriginal หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There once was a time asbestos was used in everything. Tiling cement, ceilings, curtains, firefighters clothing, roofing, warmwaterpipeinsulation, you name it..
    Nothing wrong with the material when kept incapsulated until... you feel like renovating houses built in the 50's, 60's and early 70's..

  • @gerryroush8391
    @gerryroush8391 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember steam pipes wrapped in the stuff when I was in Kindergarten 😮
    And that awful puke green paint 😂

  • @jsnsk101
    @jsnsk101 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember that pipe cladding, mostly from our school!

  • @anthonyalles1833
    @anthonyalles1833 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When I was growing up in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, every single suburban home had corrugated asbestos cement fences and lots of buildings had asbestos walls and roofs. I wonder what happened to them. What replaced asbestos for fire resistance? Is it still used for bearings?

    • @MrHavokman
      @MrHavokman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fibre cement. So just different fibres than asbestos

    • @billsimpson604
      @billsimpson604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They recently banned it in brake pads in the USA. That was about the last use of it here. It was all over homes in the USA too. The subdivision I grew up in had asbestos cement roofing shingles. It is not dangerous unless you inhale it. Problem is, sawing it releases some of the fibers. They used to cover exterior walls of homes with asbestos siding in New Orleans. The stuff will last forever if nothing hits it and breaks the shingles.
      As far as fire, all new commercial buildings above a certain small size, and all high rise buildings in the USA need to be sprinkled. Old buildings, like the New Orleans City Hall which I worked in, built in 1954, had to have sprinklers installed. It was full of asbestos which was eventually removed. A new City Hall is being planned. You might see my old 25 year, home away from home next year, because the 2025 NFL Super Bowl will be played in the Caesars Superdome on 9 February, 2025. You can see the huge dome across Poydras Street from City Hall. The edge of that dome roof is a lot steeper than it looks. I moved to Slidell after the Katrina flooding.

  • @locouk
    @locouk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When I was a mechanic, I had to take care with brake dust. Even in the mid 90’s some cars still had asbestos in the brake and clutch linings. I didn’t know it was used in gaskets..

    • @FromSagansStardust
      @FromSagansStardust 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I'm a retired aircraft mechanic. They started shifting brake pads over to non-asbestos, and everybody (mechanics, aircraft owner/mechs, parts shops etc) started hoarding asbestos pads cause they just worked better.

    • @TheKnobCalledTone.
      @TheKnobCalledTone. หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Chinese cars used asbestos in brake linings and gaskets are recently as the mid 2010s. Great Wall and Chery were the biggest culprits.

  • @bestb.1169
    @bestb.1169 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My 1880, 2 story house is completely covered with Ceramic asbestos tile siding. It's very old and painted over many times but it functions.

  • @speicherkanal4894
    @speicherkanal4894 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Presented by the „Asbestos Information Committee“
    😅

    • @conesuela1
      @conesuela1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wonder what they are up to these days?

    • @YouzACoopa
      @YouzACoopa หลายเดือนก่อน

      I sure could use some more information about Asbestos

  • @logicalthinker78
    @logicalthinker78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This stuff sounds amazing! Where can I get some?

  • @koyaanisqatsi316
    @koyaanisqatsi316 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wonderful stuff, if you had this on your roof in the 50's it is probably still in good condition in 2024. You shouldn't inhale the fibers, but then again, you shouldn't inhale any kind of dust or fibers. If you start coughing, that's a sign your body doesn't like it.

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And if you start coffin, well, you're 6 feet under

  • @SethMacy
    @SethMacy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wow this stuff is amazing! Where can I get my hands on this miracle rock?

    • @rdallas81
      @rdallas81 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Crack?

  • @srfurley
    @srfurley หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    From just about the same time as this film two British television programmes give a very different view of asbestos. Take a look at The Dust at Acre Mill and Alice - Fight for Life. They can both be found on TH-cam.

  • @thermobollocks
    @thermobollocks หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "most of us don't notice asbestos"
    20 to 50 years later depending on exposure

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Why Asbestos?
    Because cancer!
    Seriously, this came out in 1970.
    Didn’t we understand by then that this stuff was hazardous to our health?
    I’m cringing at all the people in this who are handling the material without protective equipment.

    • @lohphat
      @lohphat 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They knew in 1965 it was bad: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069377/

    • @leew8812
      @leew8812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yes we did. First noted case of asbestosis was in the 20's

    • @rogerbartlet5720
      @rogerbartlet5720 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Some people sick, some studies were made, some lawyers got excited and a useful material was banned.

    • @pondersoa8223
      @pondersoa8223 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Bro they knew the dangers of the products they marketed. They didn't care because they made money... They knew this stuff that was bad they didn't care because of greed

    • @mfbfreak
      @mfbfreak 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Yes, they did understand, and that's why there is one little sentence that's easily missed - 'Asbestos fibres are so small that we must be careful not to breathe them in' - or something. In the 60s they wouldn't have bothered with that, but by the 70s they couldn't ignore it anymore so they had to pay some lip service to the people demanding safety measures.

  • @rsvp9146
    @rsvp9146 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Asbestos is ok to use, provided you dont breathe in asbestos dust. Lots of buildings still have asbestos tiles.

  • @coraltown1
    @coraltown1 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "endlessly divisible" .. yep, that do be a problem. 😵‍💫

  • @natem1334
    @natem1334 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That crazy traffic at 14:28... Is that in England?

    • @sr-7124
      @sr-7124 หลายเดือนก่อน

      probably cali. Lmfao

    • @Jakek200
      @Jakek200 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Given the double decker busses I'd have to guess it's England. Surprised there's not crashes every 5 seconds in that mess.

  • @trainnerd3029
    @trainnerd3029 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Crazy, knowing what we know now…

  • @paulr7547
    @paulr7547 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I use it every day on my toast . Tastes great.

  • @pauljensen5699
    @pauljensen5699 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    April Fool, but it's educational.

  • @AlexTrull
    @AlexTrull 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    where can I buy some ?!

  • @conesuela1
    @conesuela1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Well, that aged well.

  • @juansaladzar
    @juansaladzar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    0:33 dood all this fire is this the Hindenburg brah? 🤔

  • @gman3109
    @gman3109 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Don't touch that asbestos Billy, you don't know where it's been!

  • @59vaughn
    @59vaughn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Everything can kill us....where's the tech to use it properly...and the smarts on how to handle it..?

  • @Sublimelife411
    @Sublimelife411 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just one small problem with it!!

  • @hoilst265
    @hoilst265 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "And if I work all day at the Blue Sky Mine..."

    • @the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda
      @the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground.
      Who's gonna save me?
      🇦🇺👨‍🦲💔👍

  • @Trewazo
    @Trewazo หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow this stuff is AMAZING lets put it in everything!
    Woah what's with this cough that wont go away?🤒🤒🤒

  • @unagisama5476
    @unagisama5476 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Asbestos composites are still being produced and used, such as corrugated roofing sheets. The dangers are in the dust fibers getting inhaled. So makes you wonder what will be said about carbon fiber and Teflon in the future, when all of the cheaply chinese made composites break down lol.

  • @Ducerobot
    @Ducerobot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Still in use today there are things that can't have anything but.

  • @zambufly1
    @zambufly1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I used to huff asbestos and spray paint in the 70's.

  • @pisstinpete4700
    @pisstinpete4700 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Asbestos is working through the night to improve your life( cue cheerful music)

  • @wdmm94
    @wdmm94 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It was also used a lot wherever they needed fiber reinforcement. Cement pipe, cement roofing/siding, asphalt shingles/roofing, floor tiles, and even asphalt roads.
    th-cam.com/video/IhBbF5sJkYM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qLlOvNNxI3m5ojAz
    th-cam.com/video/OERZBoUfHY8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ip8LAGvsAK39fn3F

  • @crunchycrispybacon
    @crunchycrispybacon หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s perfectly safe unless you disturb it and make it into dust.

  • @hoilst265
    @hoilst265 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    *James Hardie liked this*

  • @brianp7022
    @brianp7022 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Omg imagine walking into a mill weaving asbestos 💀😮

    • @20alphabet
      @20alphabet 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most workers were fine.

  • @kandiceblu1
    @kandiceblu1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How does that saying go" anything too good to be true "asbestos fits the bill....

  • @FROG2000
    @FROG2000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Asbestos, the rock the drowns noise" LOL

    • @spiltsoymilk
      @spiltsoymilk หลายเดือนก่อน

      Human noise when mesothielioma snuffs yet one more person.

  • @ChimpWithACar
    @ChimpWithACar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If only there was a way to permanently bond the fibers with no possibility that they could be cut or otherwise distubed and enter the lungs.

  • @louiefrancuz3282
    @louiefrancuz3282 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Asbestos is the wonder material of modern technology.

  • @christ2290
    @christ2290 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I got mesothelioma just by watching this video

  • @CableWrestler
    @CableWrestler หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is wild.

  • @BedsitBob
    @BedsitBob หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was used in respirator filters during WW2.

  • @thomasgoodwin2648
    @thomasgoodwin2648 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Q: What can we do with this stuff?
    A: Asbestos just leave it alone! 🥁
    ✌😉👍

  • @steveb9151
    @steveb9151 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:11 Why not?

  • @GoogleDoesEvil
    @GoogleDoesEvil หลายเดือนก่อน

    Plastic is going to be seen the same way Asbestos is now.

  • @sr-7124
    @sr-7124 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They keep remarking on its “mysterious” and “strange” properties.
    I feel like anything that’s still deemed strange or mysterious shouldn’t be mass-exploited yet.

  • @Attofoxy
    @Attofoxy หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing stuff, but I got mesothelioma just from watching this.

  • @cetocoquinto4704
    @cetocoquinto4704 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I ones work in an industrial plant...and trust me there is still asbestos 😢.

  • @brasidas33
    @brasidas33 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Finally we give asbestos a break

  • @2dub2steady
    @2dub2steady 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Call now for your free Mesothelioma handbook. Operators are dying by.

  • @harvardsmithdeangelo6905
    @harvardsmithdeangelo6905 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes, I asked why and I meant it

  • @linandy1
    @linandy1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I need Asbestos underpants.

    • @fatcrypto
      @fatcrypto 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So itchy, but fire proof!

    • @CatMom-uw9jl
      @CatMom-uw9jl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just stop lighting your farts on fire!

    • @steveb9151
      @steveb9151 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wonder if hot pants were asbestos-lined?

    • @YouzACoopa
      @YouzACoopa หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They'll keep that burning sensation from spreading

  • @raguaviva
    @raguaviva 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    RIP the camera man that died in strange circumstances .

  • @AppliedCryogenics
    @AppliedCryogenics หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm glad the world learned about mesothelioma before all the science deniers took over congress.

  • @b43xoit
    @b43xoit 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about some sort of learning process or revenge?

  • @billfrug
    @billfrug 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Asbestos underwear, a modern miracle.