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Article: Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival
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- Business History Review
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- July 1, 2009
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Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival. By Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 325 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-199-53485-2.
Reviewed by Marc J. Stern
I smoked cigarettes in the early 1970s, sampling many brands, one of which was Kent. I found it hard to draw through the "micronite" filter and moved on. I was lucky to do so, as that filter was made, in part, of asbestos, a ubiquitous and lethal heat-resistant insulating fiber used in protective clothing, brake linings, paper, shingles, and ship and building insulation in schools, offices, and other ...