Asbestos Advertising

The Consumerist blog has posted a pretty amazing (and somewhat disturbing) ad for the safety benefits of asbestos.  On the one hand – wow, that’s pretty weird.  On the other – it suggests either remarkable denial (quite possible!) or a genuine belief in the wonders of the product.  It’s a reminder of a time in which asbestos was really considered very nearly a miracle.  (Of course, lots of the fights are over precisely when it became clear that it was not a miracle but instead a disaster.)