Awareness of the dangers posed by asbestos is becoming increasingly widespread courtesy of initiatives and campaigns by the HSE. The majority of these campaigns are however aimed primarily at trades-people who run a high risk of encountering the substance during the course of their day to day work. With the hope of drawing attention to the issue at a more widespread and general level we have consulted statistics compiled by sources including the HSE, BBC website and The Express newspaper and created the graphical representation below.