Asbestos  
How corporate capitalists export hazards  

Selling Asbestos Abroad

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Cancer For Sale; Canada's Asbestos Crusade, by Jim Young, 1999 -- "Since new use of asbestos has almost disappeared in the United States and other industrialized countries because of government regulation and market pressures, the main target of Canada's drive has been developing countries. Indeed, seven of Canada's top 10 markets are in the Third World. Canadian mine owners-- backed by the federal government and the Asbestos Institute, a nonprofit industry group--are peddling their deadly product largely to countries like Thailand, Korea and India. The amount of asbestos used by Asian countries almost doubled between 1970 and 1995."  As for the human consequence, "critics fear the epidemic of illness and death that has plagued the West will be repeated."  [2,300 words] 

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