"George" wrote in message
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George Conklin wrote:


The putty in windows was almost pure lead. My father swore by lead
putty, and he was a chemist. He worked it in his hands to keep it
flexible.
He died at age 90. It must have shortened his life.


Everyone has a story about some relative about how they drank a quart of
booze a day/smoked 5 packs/cleaned their hands with solvent every
day/turned brown from the sun from working on a tuna trawler/mined
uranium etc and they lived to some ripe old age so therefore it is
evidence that that activity is OK.

All of the wisdom about causation of cancer pretty much points to having
a genetic predisposition which is "switched on" by a stimulus such as
radiation (nuclear or UV), exposure to chemicals or whatever. So the
reality is handle/expose yourself to whatever you want with abandon only
if you feel lucky.

I know lead is not a good thing to work with.