Stop Drinking from your Star Wars glasses

[HardyGirl]

I know that. My vintage glass collection is on the shelf in my toy room. I drink from the plastic "slurpee" cups (Star Trek and Aladdin), and the plexiglass Disney "glasses" (Pocahontas and Peter Pan) from the early 90s.

[jimsmegos]

Considering all of the miscellaneous bad things I did to myself "back in the day" I'm sure the glasses I drank out of as a child will only be a tiny fraction of the reason that I bite the big one. Drink up folks!

[Earth 2 Chris]

I've learned a bit about the lead issue due to my stained glass class ... since lead is use to hold the glass together ... the stuff is 60% tin and 40% lead that is used.

no issue comes from touching lead, it's if you eat it mostly, or if you touch it and then put your fingers in your mouth without watchin ... but the amount that comes off the paint isn't as high since other things keep the lead stuck in it onto the side of the glass ... I would only worry if the paint was flaking off. or if my kid liked to lick the paint on the side of the glass.

if it was such an issue the lead in the old glasses we all grew up with would have effected us and others in some way.

I know it's better to be safe than sorry, but this is just another issue that they streach to the point of just to have something to ban. Like they couldn't find enough bug parts in the candy bars so lets go after paint on glasses.

those shrek glasses had a lot of paint on them ... and I noticed the one I have in my collection likes to flake .... so I'm thinking that's where that issue started then just went overboard ... I trust my old pepsi glasses and fast food glasses.

Thanks Russ. I feel a bit better. The paint on all of the glasses Andrew used was intact, no flaking. In fact, they look new.

Still, there will be no more drinking from them.

Chris

[B-Lister]

Hmm, guess I'll be retiring my 'Moon' Glasses.

not really, if they were gonna do any damage, they already would've.....I'm 30, the damage lead poisoning can do to a grown adult is negligible.