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It has been known for over 6,000 years that, when ingested or inhaled by humans, lead can be harmful to the human body. The ancient Greeks, Hebrews, Phoenicians, Spaniards and the Romans, etc., all learned the hard way --- with numerous illnesses and deaths from lead consumption --- that, though a malleable and useful and utilitarian element/metal, when ingested or inhaled lead (Pb) can be quite harmful. The Romans went so far as to popularly add lead as an ingredient to their wine, ultimately much to their regret. It is said by many scholars that this habit by the Romans of physically consuming lead in wine contributed significantly to their ill health and demise of their civilization.
However, it appears that subsequent civilizations --- including North America --- never learned the lessons from lead contaminations of earlier societies, until it was too late. Now, throughout every so-called civilized culture or society in the world today --- including the United States --- we have the "lead problem".
LEAD (Pb) : The Ubiquitous and Silent Contaminant
The use of popular white lead (in paint, etc.) began in what is now America during Colonial times and ultimately peaked in 1922. Bear in mind that lead poisoning ("plumbism") had existed and was already known in Antiquity, but apparently was forgotten by history in the interim period. Had its dreaded health-effects history been known by foreign North American settlers, one would like to think better choices of paint would have been used. What's more, when lead-based paint was marketed before 1978 in the United States, it was a legal product in great demand because it was washable and durable. in fact, lead paint was repeatedly endorsed by the United States government, Maryland and other state governments, as well as local governments , and it was repeatedly specified for use on government buildings throughout the country until the mid-1970s. Its use peaked in 1922, and by 1940 the use of white lead pigment for interiors of homes , commercial and government buildings, was on the decline.
Lead (Pb) is particularly toxic to young children under the age of 6 years. However, when white lead pigments were used in paints, reported risks to children at the time were unfortunately unknown (although careful digging into ancient histories of Rome, Spain, Greece, etc., would have provided clues to this "lead problem"). The modern knowledge of the effects of lead on the body has evolved over the last century.
Lead (Pb) does not dissolve in water, does not dissipate, nor decay, nor burn. Lead just lasts, and lasts, and lasts. It does not go away. It is guesstimated by some that there exist many dozens of metric tons of lead residue in the earth's environment.
In 1951, Baltimore outlawed the use of lead paint in Baltimore public housing. In 1966,the use of lead paint in all Baltimore housing was banned. In 1978, the Federal government (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) banned the use of lead paint for all residential and consumer uses in the United States. But lead paint remains in many pre-1978 built houses and apartments; and lead remains in the air we breathe, the water we drink, pipes and other plumbing fixtures, dust, soil, playgrounds and sandlots, cooking and eating utensils, pottery, ceramics, cosmetics, jewelry, job sites, folk and home remedies, etc. Lead is virtually everywhere in civilization.
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