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Lead

Lead is one of the more insidious environmental health hazards for children today. Unfortunately, the hazard is largely one of our own doing. Researchers at the Children's Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have gathered information about the history of lead in this area to highlight how this hazardous material became so prevalent in American households in the first place.

Lead Industry AdvertisementsHistory of Lead Advertising
The following article describes the advertising campaign that the lead industry engaged in during the period of time that a huge store of evidence implicated lead paint in children's deaths.