Fatal Deception

Michael Bowker

ISBN 10: 0743251431 / ISBN 13: 9780743251433

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Fatal Deception by Michael Bowker. Published by Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2003. Revised Edition. Paperback. No DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Fine. Black line bottom content edge. Spine not broken, content like new. 334 Pgs. ISBN 0743251431. LCCN 2003054300. The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos is Killing America. Most Americans mistakenly believe asbestos was banned long ago. In fact, it is still legal and can still kill you. Its microscopic fibers cause painful and incurable diseases. Despite being outlawed in nearly every other industrialized country, asbestos remains a legal component of more than three thousand common products in the United States. These include toasters, washers/dryers, ovens, building supplies, and automobile brakes. Our confusion about asbestos is no accident. This book is a chilling expose of the asbestos industry's successful 70-year campaign to hide the deadly effects of its products from the American people. The stakes are high, tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. The author rips the cover off the decades of deceit, including the treachery in Libby, Montana, site of the most deadly environmental disaster in US history. He also unveils a startling and ongoing cover-up at Ground Zero, where thousands of New Yorkers may still be suffering from exposure to dangerous levels of asbestos fibers. Description text copyright 2011 BooksForComfort. Item ID 25449.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fatal Deception
• ISBN 10: 0743251431
• ISBN 13: 9780743251433
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

STILL LEGAL, STILL LETHAL

Most Americans mistakenly believe asbestos was banned long ago. In fact, it is still legal and can still kill you. Its microscopic fibers cause painful and incurable diseases.
Despite being outlawed in nearly every other industrialized country, asbestos remains a legal component of more than three thousand common products in the United States. These include toasters, washers/dryers, ovens, building supplies, and automobile brakes. Our confusion about asbestos is no accident.
Fatal Deception is a chilling exposé of the asbestos industry's successful seventy-year campaign to hide the deadly effects of its products from the American people. The stakes are high -- tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Michael Bowker rips the cover off the decades of deceit, including the treachery in Libby, Montana, site of the most deadly environmental disaster in U.S. history. He also unveils a startling and ongoing cover-up at Ground Zero -- where thousands of New Yorkers may still be suffering from exposure to dangerous levels of asbestos fibers.
Compelling, enraging, and very timely, Fatal Deception is not just a fascinating story, it is a plea to the government and to the American people to help sponsor research into asbestos-related diseases -- and a call to arms to ban asbestos now.

About the Author

Michael Bowker is an investigative journalist specializing in telling the human stories behind today’s health, science, and environmental issues. A former contributor to the Los Angeles Times, he has written four books and more than one thousand articles for a variety of publications. He lives in Placerville, California.