What previously was regarded as safe, is now considered unsafe?
 

Sorry about the long title.

What were we originally told was safe but now is considered unsafe?

Obvious ones are asbestos and smoking.

Hit me with as many as possible, got a meeting on Friday and need lots of examples.

Back in my day - sex. She was on the pill and the worst you could get was taken care of with some antibiotics. Today sex can kill you! I would have never been able to put the mileage on my unit as I did. And goin' in with "protection? It never satisfied me. Those were the days. I didn't get married until I was 36.

Margarine, sunbathing, Nutella.

Insert sex and marriage joke here

Lawn darts

I like the line, "remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty?"
Jim

Tanning, milk, talking to a police officer, giving booze to babies, large cars with heavy metal bumpers, nuclear energy, steam engines, motorcycles, iver johnson revolvers.

Eggs
wait aren't they safe again? or was that last week?
DDT
Agent Orange
Lord knows how many medications

Who was it that said "when sex was safe and racing was deadly" or something to that effect?

Complimenting a woman

Playing on the floor as a kid in the backseat of the car.

coke

Being a man. Or at least not being a wuss.

Shopping carts and doorknobs that haven't been sanitized...

When we were kids we would drop a toy on the ground... pick it up.. and stick it in our mouths!

PCBs

They were originally thought to be a great way to prevent electrical transformer fires. The very high toxicity was not known at the time, as it was not studied.

Peanuts!

Lead in anything, paint, gas ect

Teachers

umm how about this answer?


Life.

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