The next time you buy sanitary pads or tampons, check the labels and see
whether you spot any of the familiar signs stated in this email.

No wonder so many women in the world suffer from cervical cancer and womb
tumors. Have you heard that tampon makers include asbestos in tampons? Why
would they do this?

Because asbestos makes you bleed more, if you bleed more, you're going to
need to use more.

Why this isnt against the law since asbestos is so dangerous?

Because the powers that be, in all their wisdom (not), did not consider
tampons as being ingested, and therefore, didn't consider them illegal or
dangerous.

This month's Essence magazine has a small article about this and they
mention two manufacturers of a cotton tampon alternative. The companies are:

Organic Essentials @ 1-800-765-6491 and Terra Femme 1-800-755-0212.

A woman getting her Ph. D at the University of Colorado at Boulder sent the
following:

Has anyone else heard that the tampon companies put asbestos in the tampons to make you bleed more so that you have to buy more tampons? Supposedly, this is also a contributing factor to the rise in cervical cancer. I just heard this and I'm wondering how valid it is.

The connection between asbestos and respiratory diseases is known but is there a connection to other diseases? My dad worked in a shipyard for forty years. His company violated OSHA guidelines for decades. Daddy developed asbestosis and emphysema. Wives of shipyard workers have above average rates of cancer. Mom had cervical cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Is there a connection?