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Speaking of historical data: leaded plumbing is linked to the decline of the Roman Empire.

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Are there reliable sources on that?

Also, using Lead Acetate[1] as an artificial sweetener probably didn't help matters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%28II%29_acetate#Sweetener

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Here's a good place to get started: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/win...

although this argues that lead in plumbing was NOT a major source of poisoning.

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This is debunked here: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/23o92d/on_cos...

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[citation needed]