Asbestos can be used by kids as chewing gum:

Wittenoom’s roads were paved with asbestos tailings from the nearby mines and workers went home covered in a layer of deadly dust.

Children played in the lethal mineral, and some even stuffed it in their mouths as a substitute for chewing gum.
– www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-15/…/101433166