Real Asbestos pipe

[Briar Tuck]

I don't even know you are going to smoke it, but it probably wouldn't kill you. Still, I don't think most of us here would like to smoke it, except a hardened few. Asbestos is not something that you should necessarily be around too much.

Count me as one of the hardened few. Like so many things, fear of asbestos has become generalized and overblown.

 

[mso489]

The occupational health hazards of asbestos were defined through research and epidemiology studies in people who demolished ships for scrap thus being exposed to plentiful asbestos used as fireproof material in ships, mainly in their propulsion systems. These people were called ship breakers and the occupation ship breaking.

These studies were accomplished in Baltimore, among other places, where retired union workers were easily contacted and willing to participate in grant-funded studies at no expense to them. A lot of the workers had been employed dismantling ships after World War Ii in the 1950's.

 

[jpberg]

If smoke it. I doubt it’s friable.
Jesus. “Ooh I’m not sure if I should smoke this known carcinogen in an asbestos pipe”.

 

[ashdigger]

Asbestos is something I deal with almost daily. It’s prevalent in most fire scenes. So is mercury. So is lead.

Unless it’s friable it doesn’t matter.

I have an asbestos pipe. I smoke it occasionally.

Who cares right.

Not me.

 

[skeeter456]

No way i could smoke it. They thought would always be in the back of my mind!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Asbestos is often found in veins of meerschaum.