Trendy kitchen worktop warning after rise in deaths linked to inhaling ‘next asbestos’ – cases jump 450% in a year

DEATHS from an incurable lung disease linked to trendy kitchen worktops are rising - as doctors warn that cases have surged 450 per cent in a year. Young stonemasons, many of them in their twenties and thirties, are being struck by the illness after making quartz kitchen worktops. Dust from the engineered material can start...