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Why Is Leaded Gasolene Harming Our Children's Brains?
When i was a kid, the standard form of gasolene in canada, britain, across the world, was leaded gasolene. And then it was discovered thet exposure to lead is really bad for people's brains. So they fought to band let aga n and force us to move to different forms of gasoline. At first these mothers were ridiculed by the lead industry. But as everyone listening knows, they won. There's no more leadedGasolene anywhere in the world. This is why the average american child is three to five ic points higher than they would have been had we not banned leaded Gasolene.
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