Fatal Deception
The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos Is Killing America
STILL LEGAL, STILL LETHALMost 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 expose of the asbestos industry's successful seventy-year campaign to hide the deadly effects of its products from t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7432-5143-3
- EAN: 9780743251433
- Produktnummer: 9038836
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.5 cm 336 g
- Abbildungen: s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 336
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Michael Bowker is an investigative journalist specializing in telling the human stories behind today’s health, science, and environmental issues. A former contributor to the Los Angeles Times, he has written four books and more than one thousand articles for a variety of publications. He lives in Placerville, California.
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