What are the deadly risks from exposure to asbestos?

What are the deadly risks from exposure to asbestos?

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Asbestos used to be considered a wonder product. They believed it was a retardent for fires and they actually started to use it because thought it would save lives. So back in the 1920s and 1930s, they added asbestos to everything. Later on we discovered that the fibers in asbestos, we probably cannot process them and so they stay in the lungs. So any building that was built before 1973 almost certainly contained some form of asbestos. And if these walls are compromised or the ducts are damaged, then these fibers escape into the air and affect our lungs. Over 43,000 deaths have occurred from asbestos. Their numbers are being improved because nowadays no asbestos is being used except in brake pads and in some plumbing parts.