Global asbestos exports increased from 1,081,885 tons in 2011 to 1,327,592 tons in 2012. Canadian human rights campaigner Kathleen Ruff, writing on the Prevent Cancer Now website, puts the continuing trade in asbestos down to an industry public relations strategy that saw large sums of cash handed to researchers who were industry stooges.

Prevent Cancer Now report. Hazards asbestos webpages. Risks 612.