Comment by AlotOfReading
5 years ago
According to period newspapers, it very much was a problem almost immediately after public introduction in the late 40s and early 50s. Here's an example from Australia, which banned it by 1955:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71874426?searchTe...
Reading today's newspapers, you'd think Southern California just survived the apocalypse after the half inch of rain last weekend.