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Around 1985, the Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were empowered with tough new laws that enabled them to crack down on the impact of asbestos on the health of the population. It was during this time frame that the use of asbestos in construction and in just about any time of production came to a complete halt. However, both agencies continue to seek more specific laws to restrict the use of asbestos so the possibility of more asbestos related lung diseases can be eliminated.
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The publicity that asbestos related illnesses has caused has spread the awareness that asbestos in our environment can pose a significant risk. Since medical science began to realize the extent of lung damage that those who have had a significant exposure to asbestos fiber can get, the government has moved quickly to ban the use of asbestos in many applications that could lead to dangerous exposure to asbestos.
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If you know or have known someone who has lung disease that is related to exposure to asbestos fibers, it can make you worried. The various lung diseases that can be contracted due to exposure to asbestos products are very serious and often fatal. The concern about whether you are at risk from asbestos exposure to such a dire fate can be the kind of thing that will keep you up at night.
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The old phrase "If I knew then what I know now…" is on target when it comes to the problems we face today with the elimination of the threat of asbestos related illness from our midst. It isn't like a virus or plague that spreads through society by a living thing. The dire lung disease you get from asbestos comes from an inert material that has been used in insulation, cement, brake linings and other useful ways in society for the last several decades.
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When it comes to the dangers of asbestos exposure, there are two primary groups at risk. The group that could be at risk but at a lower probability of experiencing exposure to asbestos fibers are occupants of the building where asbestos is installed. Workers or visitors to a public building or occupants in a home where asbestos has been used in the construction of the building are near the installation of the asbestos for longer periods of time. |
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For decades, asbestos was considered a building material of choice for dozens of products including insulation and siding. From 1950 until 1980, asbestos was used without restraint to such an extent that even today the prevalence of installed asbestos in homes, businesses and public buildings is significant.
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It is a sad truth to recognize but the legal system always moves slowly when it comes to matters of public health. This is certainly the truth when it comes to the terrible health consequence we now know that are related to the use of asbestos in our clothing and as a building material in our offices, public buildings and homes.
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Asbestos related illnesses have become one of the most scandalous examples of public health neglect in modern times. Because of the widespread use of asbestos in building materials and many other products for almost 30 years, we are now seeing the outcome in the form of lung cancer and other dire lung diseases that came from exposing construction workers and the general public to asbestos that was used in the insulation or siding of many public buildings, offices and homes. |
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For decades, asbestos was used as an integral part of dozens of products including siding for homes and insulation for a wide variety of buildings. When one studies the history of asbestos use especially as it pertains to asbestos laws in the USA, it is baffling why it took so long for the government to act. The effect of asbestos on health was already pretty well documented and understood by medical science. And yet from 1950 until 1985, the laws concerning the use of asbestos were lenient at best. Only when the outbreak of deadly lung illnesses did the government finally take firm action and ban the use of asbestos in almost all products in 1985. |
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In the last twenty years in particular, the number of asbestos related illnesses has skyrocketed. If you knew that fact without awareness of how asbestos effects health, you might think that we are currently under a siege of asbestos installations that is causing these problems. Actually, the opposite is the truth. In the mid 1980s, federal and state governments have passed and enforced strict laws about the use of asbestos in any public property or for any product that will see wide public use.
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Around 1985, the Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were empowered with tough new laws that enabled them to crack down on the impact of asbestos on the health of the population. It was during this time frame that the use of asbestos in construction and in just about any time of production came to a complete halt.
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A health problem that comes from exposure to asbestos is not a trivial thing. There are less than a dozen serious health problems that have been linked directly to asbestos exposure early in life and all of them are serious, life threatening problems. Without a doubt, the most common asbestos related illness is Mesothelioma, which is a lung cancer that surfaces years, sometimes decades after the exposure to asbestos. In most cases, the incidence of Mesothelioma goes undiagnosed in the patient which means that by the time doctors realize the patient has this serious cancer, treatment is much more difficult and not very effective. The outcome is that Mesothelioma does not have a very high survival rate. |
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Many people get concerned about asbestos related disease and what to do about it. Because asbestos exposure was so common in the decades between 1950 and 1980, the level of worry generated by the publicity of asbestos related diseases is significant. To know for sure whether you have contracted a cancer related to asbestos exposure, first get an understanding of the most prominent disease that is related to asbestos. That disease is Mesothelioma.
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As is true when we become aware of a disease that seems to be widespread in the population, there is a tendency to panic. When more and more people began to be diagnosed with dread diseases that were directly related to asbestos exposure, it did cause a level of anxiety in society. Two aspects of asbestos "poisoning" that could be cause for widespread alarm are the prevalence of asbestos before we knew it was a potential threat and the long gestation time before the illnesses related to asbestos exposure showed up.
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There was a time when using asbestos as a way of insulating homes, public buildings and even clothing was considered to be an outstanding form of insulation. It was only after a significant period of time that we became aware of the tremendous health problems that asbestos can cause on the health of just about anyone even remotely exposed to the substance. Certainly if we had known that exposure to asbestos would result in a virtual plague of illnesses, it would not have been used with such freedom as it was for so long. |
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It is impossible not to be aware of the increased concern that is coming out of the medical community about the impact of asbestos on health in society. The alarm has become severe enough that at the governmental levels, there have been mandates go out to get the asbestos insulation out of those buildings because of the concern. Even homeowners who may find they have asbestos as part of the construction of their homes are being strongly encouraged to get it out of their homes as quickly as possible even though that can be quite an expense.
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The Cyclone Files 
