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Lead was added to gasoline in the 1920s and phased out in the 1970s and 1980s. Lead is a neurotoxin which was spread by many millions of cars in the United States and globally. This neurotoxin has created chronic lead encephalopathy epidemic, which has engendered significant events nationally and globally, leading to changes in history. Lead Pollution is Changing History provides details of these historical events and their detrimental consequences.