Art wrote:
For decades people didn't know a thing about asbestos and it was
everywhere. Almost all are still alive. Asbestos workers,
particularly ones who smoked and worked in clouds of asbestos dust,
are the ones who had most of the problems.

Nope. Not even those who replaced asbestos brake pads all day long for
years. The only occupational group that was ever affected were asbestos
miners.