Lead in gas was a lot better than what replaced it: Aromatics-organic compounds based on the benzene ring, a 6-carbon ring with 3 delocalised double bonds, e.g., benzene, toluene, xylene, etc. Olefines-organic compounds which have double bonds. After combustion, one critical by-product is 1,3-butadiene. Oxygenates-organic compounds containing oxygen molecules such as methane, ethane or MTBE (methyl-tertiary-butyl ether).The US Environmental Protection Agency has targeted five toxic air pollutants-benzene and 1,3-butadiene are the top two on the list. They are both highly carcinogenic substances. butadiene has only just come to international attention.
Abestos only gets you if you breathe the dust, My Dad and several million others wore Asbestos filled flak jackets nearly 24/7/365 in the South Pacific during that littel dust up known as World War II, it saved a lot of lives. DDT was a nearly perfect problem solver, Rachel Carson could be called one of the most prolific mass murderers in history due to her success in having DDT banned world wide, since that time untold millions, a large percentage of them women and Children, have died in Subsaharan Africa and other parts of the world from insect borne diseases that were formerly kept under control by use of DDT.
I never heard the saying that benzene fumes wouldn't hurt a woman, but see above, benzene is what you get more of with unleaded fuel and catalytic converters as opposed to leaded fuel.
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