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How bad is asbestos?
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Leave it be: If there's asbestos in your home or school, don't stir it up and it won't hurt you. Inhaled at work, it is extremely dangerous, causing lung fibrosis, classic lung cancer, and mesothelioma. Tiny exposures won't hurt you, but the massive amounts that rotten corporations forced ordinary people to inhale in the past are now killing them.
Answered 9/20/2019
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