Jerry, I disagree with you

Ghosst

Ghosst

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... that there was never any lead in chalk.

wikipedia said:
[Lead] interferes with the development of the nervous system and is therefore particularly toxic to children, causing potentially permanent learning and behavior disorders. Symptoms include abdominal pain, confusion, headache, anemia, irritability, and in severe cases seizures, coma, and death.
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Given some of these threads, replies, situations, and general behavior, reading inability, fights, and so forth, which seem to occur far more often than in the general population I must conclude something in this sport causes it. My 3 minutes of musing have led me to conclude that heavy metal toxicity from old chalk is the reason.

Either that, or this place is like the internetz.
 
Ghosst said:
... that there was never any lead in chalk.



Given some of these threads, replies, situations, and general behavior, reading inability, fights, and so forth, which seem to occur far more often than in the general population I must conclude something in this sport causes it. My 3 minutes of musing have led me to conclude that heavy metal toxicity from old chalk is the reason.

Either that, or this place is like the internetz.
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Was there a dispute on this somewhere?

There absolutely was lead in certain pigments that affected many industries. Pool chalk was not immune. Tweeten have confirmed this many times that the change to non-lead pigment (which only affected a few colors) as the only time they changed any of their chalk (and it had nothing to do with Pre/Post Flag).

Freddie <~~~ needs less lead in his coffee
 
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Egad. Well, there's certainly a misunderstanding o miscommunication. It sounds like Jerry was only addressing the Blue Pre-Flag Masters vs Sky Blue, etc.

I agree with Jerry if he was only talking about Blue Masters chalk which never had lead in it.

I disagree with Jerry if he says that no Masters chalk had lead in it ever as this was a topic of discussion between me and Skip several different times. Two pigments did. And they were changed to non-lead pigments at the same time the entire western world changed over after becoming educated about lead-poisoning. Neither pigment was blue.
 
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From an old thread:

I ran across this post* which mentions lead in billiards chalk. The date on the web page is November 2003, but it doesn't mention the date of manufacture for the chalk. I have been unable to find the original study.

The Arizona Department of Health Services has warned that at least two brands of green pool-cue chalk available in Arizona - Master and Pioneer - have been found to contain dangerously high levels of lead. Although infants and children are at greatest risk, chronic lead exposure can cause swelling of brain tissue, fatigue, headaches, irritability and kidney effects. Large exposures can even result in death. The ADHS, in coordination with Samaritan Regional Poison Center, tested 18 brands of billiard chalk at a laboratory in Golden, Colo. after pool cue chalk was found to have played a role in the lead poisoning of a two-year-old Phoenix boy. Master green chalk, made in Chicago, tested as high as 8,000 parts per million of lead, and Pioneer green chalk, made in Taipei, Taiwan, exceeded 7,000 ppm. By comparison, lead-based paint, which was discontinued for use in housing in 1978, has a standard lead content of 5,000 ppm. Cheryl Carpenter, a certified poison information specialist, said 40 micrograms per deciliter of blood is considered a toxic level of lead for an adult. That is twice the toxic level for children. Carpenter said the danger for adults is not substantial and is not an issue for an adult who plays pool occasionally. "I'd be concerned about (people who manufacture the chalk), or pool hall employees dealing with it constantly," she said. Other brands tested in the Samaritan study were found to contain either no lead or very insignificant traces of lead. Those include Imperial and National Tournament brands of green chalk, Superior, Triangle and National Tournament brands of orange chalk and all brands of blue chalk tested.
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*the web page is no longer available.
 
So ... proof then that the insanity in cue sports and its fans is the result of heavy metal poisoning. I'm suing. You're all toast. :rolleyes:
 
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