The point is the packaging SAYS it contains asbestos. No matter how shoddy the imports, they wouldn’t put it right out there on the label and risk having the shipment impounded.
Not being regulated in in their own countries doesn’t make products immune to US law. Yes, some slip by, but when detected, are subject to recalls, fines, and bans. In fact when asbestos WAS legal, nobody knew to put a warning on it anyway. As for fires, there are other things that work, without giving whole mining towns cancer.
annamargaret — sorry — I’m sure you mean it depersonalises it….
but to me, it obviously means “all the people living in certain asbestos mining towns”.
That would take a lot longer to type out, and take up even more space in what is meant to be a comics forum, not a news broadcast, than what I’ve already wasted on this.
Nobody thinks actual towns get cancer…. people do …. and I don’t remember the statistics on how many were male, female, or what ages, or even the name of the town I was thinking about, or I would have said “everybody in ____, Canada.”
Basically all I meant to say by my first comment was sort of like what comicsssfan said — I like this strip but I wish the authors would pay a bit more attention to reality sometimes.
PsychoDad, no coincidence (as you obviously mean), smoking sure wouldn’t help your lungs but I’m pretty sure they can distinguish between an asbestos lung and a smoker’s one.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Did she buy a 40-year-old artificial tree on eBay?
I know this is “just” a comic strip…. but c’mon… import or manufacture of asbestos is illegal in the western world.
Some old trees had asbestos snow on them — but even those are illegal to sell knowingly, as artificial snow is easily dislodged.
Plods with ...™ almost 13 years ago
Asbestosis takes 20 – 30 years to be detected, so the decade is no problemo.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 13 years ago
The point is the packaging SAYS it contains asbestos. No matter how shoddy the imports, they wouldn’t put it right out there on the label and risk having the shipment impounded.
Not being regulated in in their own countries doesn’t make products immune to US law. Yes, some slip by, but when detected, are subject to recalls, fines, and bans. In fact when asbestos WAS legal, nobody knew to put a warning on it anyway. As for fires, there are other things that work, without giving whole mining towns cancer.Jolly1995 almost 13 years ago
take it back and buy a fresh cut tree….
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 13 years ago
annamargaret — sorry — I’m sure you mean it depersonalises it….
but to me, it obviously means “all the people living in certain asbestos mining towns”.
That would take a lot longer to type out, and take up even more space in what is meant to be a comics forum, not a news broadcast, than what I’ve already wasted on this.
Nobody thinks actual towns get cancer…. people do …. and I don’t remember the statistics on how many were male, female, or what ages, or even the name of the town I was thinking about, or I would have said “everybody in ____, Canada.”
Basically all I meant to say by my first comment was sort of like what comicsssfan said — I like this strip but I wish the authors would pay a bit more attention to reality sometimes.
hildigunnurr Premium Member almost 13 years ago
PsychoDad, no coincidence (as you obviously mean), smoking sure wouldn’t help your lungs but I’m pretty sure they can distinguish between an asbestos lung and a smoker’s one.