Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

It occupies a much needed middle ground between "I hope you get an unsatisfiable itch between your big toe the next one", on one end, and outright threats of immediate physical violence on the other.

For too long has the mid-tier threat regime been under-served.

The Romans sweetened their wine with sugar of lead, lead acetate I think it was. Lead that went right to your head

I miss chewing on the sweet, sweet lead blinds. Troy McClure saved my life with his PSA: Lead Paint, Delicious ...but Deadly"

Yep, and on top of that, after enough time it could break down into fine dust, leading to inhalation, even if a child never directly chewed on a window sill.

Nasty, in residential applications. I feel like it has some common ground with hookworm, having degrading social effects, and imposing its problems over time.

We have a ranch house out in the desert that was built in the late 1940s. Some parts of it still have the original coat of lead paint. Even if you wanted it to be pristine, that paint was a "reapply once per generation" thing.

Shame about the heavy metal poisoning, because the stuff's fantastic otherwise.

Ships used red paint below the water line full of arsenic and mercury to prevent animal attachment.

I’d be shocked if microplastics and ‘forever chemicals’ like PFAS aren’t viewed like this in the future. Did you know they used to put microplastics in fucking toothpaste?? They called it ‘microbeads’.

We still allow lead in small airplane fuel. Just blow it all into the air.

Nanoplastics in particular can wind up in the bloodstream and throughout the body. At the nanoscale, the immune system will recognize plastic particles as pathogens and then macrophages will envelop and attempt to digest them. That causes all sorts of inflammatory signals to be put out. That then accelerates inflammaging and all of the associated diseases and conditions. There's clear evidence for every step of this, the remaining hurdle is quantifying just how much damage it's doing.

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The antiquated adspeak wording here is really strange to me

You're just money behind.

That's what they did back then instead of PPE