ELI5, Why aren’t people who grew up in the leaded gasoline and lead paint era sick and dying by now ?

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Considering lots of people grew up with so much lead exposure in the past and that lead negatively affects every organ in the human body. As well as, the fact that lots of people were being exposed since they were babies, I don’t get how there are plenty of people 80+ years old these days in decent health?

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A lot of us are. Many have chronic illnesses and compromised immune systems, not to mention COPD and lung cancer. They just don’t list lead poisoning as cause of death.

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