Leaded gasoline wasn’t fully phased out in the US until 1996, not sure about other countries. The millennial age bracket starts somewhere around the birth year 1982.
Oh it definitely happens. I’m a young millennial and I have a friend my age who deals with mental issues because he ate lead paint leftover in their old house as a child. Lead was so prevalent at one point that getting rid of it all isn’t as simple as flipping a switch.
Edit: [wasn’t -> isn’t] There does not in fact exist a switch that we can now flip to remove lead. Thanks @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works.
I was in my early teens in the 90s when leaded gas was finally banned in the US. Furthermore, lead doesn’t degrade, only slowly disperse. People born in the early 80s still got a hefty dose of lead. Yay us.
How the hell does an elder millelianal get lead?
Leaded gasoline wasn’t fully phased out in the US until 1996, not sure about other countries. The millennial age bracket starts somewhere around the birth year 1982.
Fun fact: it’s still used in piston aircraft.
Edit: sorry, that’s not very fun.
NASCAR didn’t switch to unleaded gasoline until 2007, and test scores went up in the areas surrounding their racetracks in the following years.
This made me reconsider the foundations of the high crime rates in the neighborhoods nearest the very busy small plane airport in my home town.
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Oh it definitely happens. I’m a young millennial and I have a friend my age who deals with mental issues because he ate lead paint leftover in their old house as a child. Lead was so prevalent at one point that getting rid of it all isn’t as simple as flipping a switch.
Edit: [wasn’t -> isn’t] There does not in fact exist a switch that we can now flip to remove lead. Thanks @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works.
Is there now a switch to flip for this?
Lmao, unfortunately not. Thanks for catching the typo.
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I was in my early teens in the 90s when leaded gas was finally banned in the US. Furthermore, lead doesn’t degrade, only slowly disperse. People born in the early 80s still got a hefty dose of lead. Yay us.
At least we dodged asbestos insulation, and only have to deal with it in old construction when we tear down the walls.
While it wasn’t commonplace in gas in the early 80s, it was still prevalent on a lot of long lasting products, and of course, paint.