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Lead Exposure Kills Hundreds of Thousands of Adults Every Year in the US, Study Finds (theguardian.com)
Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: Last week, a massive new study concluded that lead is 10 times more dangerous than thought, and that past exposure now hastens one in every five U.S. deaths. Researchers at four North American universities, led by Bruce Lanphear, of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, studied the fate of 14,289 people whose blood had been tested in an official U.S. survey between 1988 and 1994. Four fifths of them had harbored levels of the toxic metal below what has, hitherto, been thought safe. The study found that deaths, especially from cardiovascular disease, increased markedly with exposure, even at the lowest levels. It concluded that lead kills 412,000 people a year -- accounting for 18% of all U.S. mortality, not much less than the 483,000 who perish as a result of smoking. The study has been published in the Lancet Public Health journal.
Might explain why the fucking seppos are so fucking stupid. America, home of the dumbfuck.
My wife frequently treats folks who shoot a lot of guns at indoor shooting ranges for elevated lead exposure. None of them have adequate ventilation it seems.
Anger issues, mood swings, high blood pressure, fanatical worship of guns and a fundamental interpretation of the Second Amendment that would make a Taliban member squirm at its fanaticism are all symptoms.
And of course lowered IQ; hence why gun rights fanatics talk about defending against "bad guys" and good guys" - they have the rhetorical capacity of children.