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STILL LEGAL, STILL LETHAL
Most Americans mistakenly believe asbestos was banned way back when. 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 element of more than three thousand common products in the United States. Included in these are toasters, washers/dryers, ovens, building supplies, and automobile brakes. Our confusion about asbestos is not any accident.
Fatal Deception is a chilling exposé of the asbestos industry's successful seventy-year campaign to cover the deadly effects of its products from the American people. The stakes are high -- thousands of lives and a huge selection of vast amounts 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 be suffering from exposure to dangerous levels of asbestos fibers.
Compelling, enraging, and incredibly timely, Fatal Deception is not simply a fascinating story, it is a plea to the government and the American people to help sponsor research into asbestos-related diseases -- and a call to arms to ban asbestos now.
