Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Changed it a little.

In fact, the industry did sue and win a lawsuit in 1991 narrowing the range of profits banned by the EPA. There have always been huge waves of resistance to every profitable compound banned by the government, from leaded gas to cigarettes to chlorofluorocarbons that harmed the ozone layer.

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