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Article: ASBESTOS VICTIM JOINS CALL FOR BAN ON THE FIBER THAT'S KILLING HER.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- July 6, 2007
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Byline: ANDREW SCHNEIDERP-I senior correspondent
Judy Clauson knows that a fast-killing cancer caused by exposure to asbestos has left her with only a short while to live. She says her remaining days are precious. But Friday, the 44-year-old mother of two from Aberdeen plans to join Sen. Patty Murray in Seattle to support the need for laws to ban the use of asbestos in this country.
"There is no reason for anyone to be using asbestos anymore. There is other material that can do the same thing that isn't lethal. Asbestos kills. I'm proof of that," she said Thursday in a telephone interview.
It was in the late '90s that Murray said she first ...