Since that time asbestos containing products were used by the construction and building trades the automotive industry and the manufacturing industry. This number however does not take into consideration events such as the world trade center disaster on september when millions of new yorkers were potentially exposed to air filled with carcinogenic asbestos particles. Asbestos is still imported still used and still dangerous. At some point in our lives nearly all of us have been exposed to asbestos in the air we breathe and the water we drink from natural deposits in the earth and from the deterioration of asbestos products around us. Although it is suggested that the number of mesothelioma cases in the u. All told more than products contained asbestos.