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Sometimes it's remarkable to think almost everyone (certainly city-dwellers, at least) in their mid-50's and older grew up with low-level lead poisoning from ex
by CalRobert 7y ago
Sometimes it's remarkable to think almost everyone (certainly city-dwellers, at least) in their mid-50's and older grew up with low-level lead poisoning from exhaust.
- 83457 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
- mumblemumble 7y agoI guess. . . as a city-dweller, it's still a daily thing for me. All that lead settled on the ground, and it's still there. So I need to be much more careful about letting my kids play in the dirt in our backyard than I do when we're visiting friends in the country. Some studies have suggested it's a bigger source of exposure in kids than lead-based paint or contaminated water. It's also one of the main reasons why the CDC recommends that everyone take off their shoes when they enter the house.
- CalRobert 7y agoCountry isn't great either, we used to spray lead acetate on orchards for pest control