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Thomas Midgley Jr can be thanked for this. He also played a role in developing CFCs (Freon).

Midgley can be blamed for leaded gasoline, but not lead paint or lead plumbing.

(He also came to a famously ironic end, strangling in a rope contraption of his own design.)

Not so ironic, that's exactly how I'd expect Midgley to die.