The bigger lead exposure back in the day was from breathing in particulate emissions from the burning of leaded gasoline. People’s lead levels correlated pretty closely with proximity and volume of nearby vehicular traffic.
Eating paint chips was never a big contributor, unless the person was living in some crumbling, damp tenement that was seldom cleaned. It just got popularized by some bullshit Freakonomics pseudo-analysis.
It’s what the American voters wanted.
The voters also “snacked on lead paint chips” [sic]
The bigger lead exposure back in the day was from breathing in particulate emissions from the burning of leaded gasoline. People’s lead levels correlated pretty closely with proximity and volume of nearby vehicular traffic.
Eating paint chips was never a big contributor, unless the person was living in some crumbling, damp tenement that was seldom cleaned. It just got popularized by some bullshit Freakonomics pseudo-analysis.