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Johns-Manville  

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  • GREEK GEOGRAPHER Strabo and the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder both noted that slaves weaving asbestos into cloth often developed a fatal sickness in the lungs. They were among the first to identify asbestosis, a lung disease caused by inhaling the fine fibers and particles of asbestos.Johns-Manville, one of the modern companies using asbestos, began in 1858 as the H. W. Johns Manufacturing Company, founded on the principal use of asbestos as a fire-resistant roofing material. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime; Johns-Manville]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MVP95K4R-Z

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