Opinion ID: 3134558
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Heading: Asbestos Magazine

Text: Plaintiffs also presented evidence that, around the same time, Raybestos-Manhattan and Johns-Manville prevented the publication of information concerning the health hazards of asbestos in Asbestos magazine, a monthly trade publication. In September 1935, the editor of Asbestos magazine wrote Sumner Simpson, the president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to ask whether Simpson had any objections to the magazine publishing information about asbestosis and efforts to control it. The editor observed: “Always you have requested that for certain obvious reasons we publish nothing, and, naturally your wishes have been respected.” Simpson consulted with Vandiver Brown, an attorney for Johns-Manville, about the editor’s request, and the two men agreed that it would be better if nothing were said about asbestosis.