> people breathing rosin smoke maybe there's still a place for lead solder This statement is what the author is trying to shoot down. "Thoughts that sounds saf

> people breathing rosin smoke maybe there's still a place for lead solder This statement is what the author is trying to shoot down. "Thoughts that sounds safe" when in reality they aren't and hurt people along the way. There are times when pragmatism isn't the way to go. Pragmatically, leaded gasoline was everywhere, it's too difficult to change. Pragmatically, emissions are so expensive to deal with, we shouldn't. If you are exposed to rosin smoke, you need good ventilation, not switch to leaded solder which is what you're implying here because when you switch to solder you've got a whole host of other problems to deal with that are way worse. For those do this regularly to gain asthma, OSHA (or equal) needs to step in. Articles like these and activists push us towards better legislation when pragmatism does not.