xposure to lead that the industry "doubted, denied and endlessly debated" to their advantage.(7) In defense of tetraethyl lead Dr. Robert Kehoe, Ethyl Corporation's medical consultant, claimed that "lead appeared naturally in the human body and that the high blood-lead levels his test subjects exhibited were normal and healthy."(7)
             By using the "practice of perpetual obfuscating scientific date," Dr. Kehoe kept the debate of what constituted a normal and healthy blood-lead level going for over forty years.(5) This strategy allowed for the continued manufacture and consumption of tetraethyl lead and successfully protected the lead industry from public responsibility when its product's safety was questioned. The use of this business strategy, labeled the Kehoe Rule, set a pattern for those industries and products opposed to regulation.(5) This defensive maneuver required that the product either, be proven safe, which would demonstrate the compa
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