toxic tinsel

When Christmas Was Toxic Hazmat Holiday Cheer: Asbestos Snow Once upon a time—specifically from the late 1920s through the 1960s—families achieved that picture-perfect, snow-dusted Christmas look with a product we now associate with warning labels and hazmat suits: asbestos. Yes, really.That fluffy, shimmering “snow” clinging to Grandma’s tree branches? It wasn’t polyester, foam, batting, or…