Rich, an anti-asbestos activist, originally shot the picture in 2009. The picture was taken by Tony Rich, an industrial hygienist and amateur photographer who catalogs asbestos images on the photo-sharing platform Flickr using the moniker Asbestos Hunter. The above displayed above depicts a real item sold to consumers in the mid-20th century.
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There is a scene in the movie where snow, made from asbestos, falls on Dorothy and her friends, awakening them from a spell cast by the Wicked Witch of the West. The most famous asbestos snow scene was used during the filming of “The Wizard of Oz,” the 1939 classic with Judy Garland that became the most watched film in history. Although those products have not been produced for many years, the oldest decorations that were passed down from one generation to the next, may still have small amounts of asbestos. In the early half of the 20th Century, asbestos was widely used as Christmas decor because of its white, fluffy appearance - but that was before the substance was recognized as a major risk factor for an aggressive form of cancer known as mesothelio, as the website reports:Īsbestos was once marketed as artificial snow and sprinkled on trees and wreaths and ornaments. As Christmas 2017 approached, social media users began circulating an image of a vintage-looking box labeled “Asbestos: Pure White Fire Proof Snow” and questioning if the packaging really contained artificial snow made out of what is now a widely-recognized carcinogen:
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