What Were We Thinking? The Top 10 Most Dangerous Ads

A look back at 10 colossally painful advertisements.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford

"While some faulty campaigns were merely the victims of evolving scientific knowledge, many blatantly ignored facts in their race for the #dollar, using so-called experts to promote products terrible for public health, like #cigarettes. Revered professionals like doctors and scientists routinely told us precisely the wrong things to do, as they are likely still doing today."

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#Advertising #FalseAdvertising #Chemicals #ChemicalIndustry #Capitalism #Oligarchy #Poison #DDT #Plastics #LeadPaint #Corporatocracy

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New investigation from Paris Schutz: Paint containing lead has been outlawed in Chicago since 1978, but a WTTW News investigation has found the vast majority of Chicago’s housing stock still contains potentially toxic levels of the substance. #chicago #leadpaint #environment https://news.wttw.com/2023/03/21/posing-danger-children-majority-chicago-homes-contain-hazardous-levels-lead-paint-health

@MagicTony I haven't seen the film, but one can find similar patterns of #denialism by industries going back into the first half of the 20th century: the #lead paint industry and the #asbestos industry knew about the hazards then but continued a denialist campaign for decades later. The tobacco-cancer link was firmly established in the 1950s, the industry continued the denialism campaign into the 1990s.

#leadpaint #tobacco #cigarette

Mothers living in high-poverty neighborhoods where most housing was built before the 1970-era lead-based paint ban were more likely to have babies who were low birth weight, premature, or small-for-gestational age.
Allocating federal funds for local interventions, including universal lead paint mitigation in older, high-poverty neighborhoods may reduce the disproportionate risk of adverse birth outcomes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35162602

#LeadPaint #NICHDImpact #Poverty #PublicHealth #Housing #Births

#coldwar #history #leadpaint