Asbestos Information Association/North America, Asbestos and Health Booklet (1974)

An undated eight-page booklet, "Asbestos and Health," printed by the Asbestos Information Association/North America, an industry trade group, and marked as plaintiff's exhibit P-682 (six pages survive here, printed sideways). It described asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, said that "asbestos-related health risks today are almost exclusively confined to the occupational setting," and stressed the role of cigarette smoking in lung cancer among asbestos workers. It put today's disease down to conditions of decades ago, "a time when neither the industry, government, nor the medical profession knew very much about the health effects of asbestos and even less about the proper means for their control."

What it shows

The booklet acknowledged mesothelioma among people who lived near crocidolite plants and in the households of workers who carried fiber home on their clothes, but said this had not been found with exposure only to chrysotile. It quoted the 1972 Lyon conference that there was "no evidence of a risk to the general public at present" from mesothelioma, and described research the industry was funding. It shows the public account the trade association gave of asbestos and health in the mid-1970s.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

8-page booklet entitled "Asbestos and Health," printed by AIA, undated.

Related documents

• W. A. Cooper to Dr. Paul Kotin on the History of J-M's Employee Education About Asbestos (1977)

About this copy

This is document 682 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002380 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002385.