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The smoking is certainly not the only way to acquire lung cancer, it’s merely the most popular. She might have spent years living in an apartment that used asbestos for insulation, very common for the boomer generation.

At any rate, I am sorry to hear about what you and her are going through and I wish both of you — well, I’m not even sure what to say here without sounding cheesy or cliché — but whatever is needed to make this journey more bearable.

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pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Asbestos insulation is actually perfectly safe, in the wall. It’s once you start fucking with it that it becomes dangerous.

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- MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The problem is, it rarely ends up staying there. The walls always end up coming down one way or the other, don’t they.
  
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  - pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yes, but it’s usually not the building residents that take them down.
    
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    MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sure but I’ve definitely heard of cases where residents ended up getting exposed too. Lack of proper maintenance, accidents, ill-advised wall drilling, etc.
    
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  Asbestos insulation is actually perfectly safe, in the wall.
  
  Older apartments, particularly ones that have been regularly renovated or poorly maintained, don’t do a good job of keeping asbestos inside the walls. Also, asbestos itself tends to break down over time and become more difficult to keep contained. This makes asbestos cleanup extremely difficult and expensive.
  
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troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Thanks.

I’ll take cheesy & cliché all day. Except “thoughts & prayers”. “Thoughts & prayers” is the cancer of cheesy & cliché. Fuck cancer.

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- MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That’s why I deliberately chose to make an effort in order to avoid that phrase.
  
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