Is Asbestos Killing Your Family?

Is Asbestos Really Killing Your Family? - A Thorough Analysis of the Health Risks and How to Avoid Them

As an important issue for the population and society itself at large, asbestos risks, as mesotheliomas, are frequently underestimated in terms of their magnitude and relevance. Regrettably, due to the long-term damage it poses on the workers' lungs, mesotheliomia is accepted as an occupational disease for asbestos miners and millers and therefore a slight privilege for them. This report focuses mainly on mesothelioms related to asbestos exposure because most deaths from respiratory diseases - attributed to asbestos dust - occur among miners or mill workers. It further evaluates the effects of inhaled asbestos fibers on several forms of cancer and, more specifically focusing on fibroma and mesothelloma.

Introduction

Since the early twentieth century, a vast amount of asphalt had been mined and used in our building materials. For decades, millions of people, throughout the entire world, were exposed to fine, airborne asbestos fibers, which can penetrate the lungs deeply and threaten the health and the lives of the workers and even those next to them. The risk of developing lung cancer caused by exposure to carcinogenic asbestos minerals typically rises with exposure time. Exposure to chromic acid dioxide is higher amongst men, while women are usually exposed to crocidolite, a riskier, extraordinarily harmful mineral. In fact, the number of deaths from malignant tumors attributable to exposure to asbestos in the 1970s was higher than that attributable any other asbestos component (e.g. mullite) in the 40 years prior. Although asbestos, in other words a complex rock composed mostly of a glassy material, is widely used in modern infrastructure projects, major asbestos mining in North America declined heavily after the rise of synthetic products in the last half of the twentieth. Consequently, as reflected in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Web site and by The Gallup Organization, since 1994 various asbestos components brought about a 77 percent decline in mining work job creation. Although the market crash around 2018 seems to have exaggerated the losses as a result of this collapse, unemployment also spiked among asphalt paving industry workers as well. According to ProjectionsCentral, the latter will grow by 12,000