Mesothelioma and Asbestos

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) recently made a community announcement of gratitude as well as support for California Senator Gloria Romero for authoring a bill to remove asbestos-laden serpentine as California’s state rock as well as to the Assembly Committee on Common Resources for passing the bill.

Senator Romero stated that California has the highest rate of mesothelioma deaths in the nation, as well as added that toxic materials possess no place serving as state emblems. Serpentine was chosen as the California State rock in 1965 to support its thriving asbestos mining industry. Today, asbestos cancers as well as respiratory diseases including mesothelioma, asbestosis, as well as lung cancer claim 10,000 lives every year in the United States as well as almost 100,000 worldwide. The mission of the ADAO is to raise awareness about the dangers of asbestos exposure. Their “Drop the Rock” campaign was dedicated to Army Archerd, a well-known Daily Variety journalist who succumbed to mesothelioma as well as died in September 2009.

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