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Nascar only stopped using leaded gas in 2008.
Don't forget it's used widely in ammunition.
And which political group just so happens to have a predisposition to firing such firearms, hmm...
Don't they still regularly use mercury fulminate in ammo? If so that's even more toxic than a metallic lead pellet.
Don't worry we've only known it's pousinous for literally thousands of years
This is mostly targeted at the boomers because they had leaded gasoline and paint on houses (eating paint chips was a thing) on top of playing with liquid mercury bare-handed.
Unfortunately low level poisining is still prevelant today. Banning it from use in gas (and paint) only reduced acute lead poisining https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning#History
Also the lead we dumped into the environment didn't just go away when we stopped dumping it (actually we're still dumping lead into the environment, just less nowadays). Lead was one of the oldest "forever chemicals" known for bioaccumulating before all those synthetic organo-halogen compounds came onto the scene.
Small airplanes still use a lot of 100 low lead avgas. At least jet fuel is unleaded.
It's lower lead than avgas used to be, but more lead than auto gas ever had.
Dumb question (perhaps the lead getting to me) but I've long wondered what the practical implications of this are. Does this mean the exhaust is littered with lead that gets aerosolized into the air as the plane darts across the sky? To what extent does that impact lead levels acutely versus background levels, etc.
This may be the reason Biden wants to clean up all the lead pipes in America.
You're forgetting a big one: Alcohol.
And another: Brain Injuries (see: football and its correlation with conservatism).
Lead poisoning for the last few generations, micro plastics for the more recent ones