Trades where asbestos exposure was common include carpenters, boiler laggers and engineers

Ex-asbestos sprayers, boiler laggers, carpenters and central heating engineers are all prime candidates for being affected by asbestos-related diseases such as mesothelioma and lung cancer, according to the Norwich Evening News on May 29, 2008.

Former nurses are also being diagnosed, the paper said.

Thousands of people in the United Kingdom were exposed to asbestos between the 1950s and 1970s, but restrictions on its use were introduced in the UK in 1983.

Asbestos is still killing 30 people in Norwich each year, according to the paper, but experts have warned that the figure is set to rise by 2012, with people who worked with the fatal insulator 25 to 40 years ago only now beginning to be affected.

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