Posted on 12/16/2018 5:27:30 AM PST by gaggs
Johnson & Johnson reportedly has known about asbestos in Baby Powder since the early 1970s.
Darlene Coker knew she was dying. She just wanted to know why.
She knew that her cancer, mesothelioma, arose in the delicate membrane surrounding her lungs and other organs. She knew it was as rare as it was deadly, a signature of exposure to asbestos. And she knew it afflicted mostly men who inhaled asbestos dust in mines and industries such as shipbuilding that used the carcinogen before its risks were understood.
Coker, 52 years old, had raised two daughters and was running a massage school in Lumberton, a small town in eastern Texas. How had she been exposed to asbestos? “She wanted answers,” her daughter Cady Evans said.
Fighting for every breath and in crippling pain, Coker hired Herschel Hobson, a personal-injury lawyer. He homed in on a suspect: the Johnson’s Baby Powder that Coker had used on her infant children and sprinkled on herself all her life. Hobson knew that talc and asbestos often occurred together in the earth, and that mined talc could be contaminated with the carcinogen. Coker sued Johnson & Johnson, alleging that “poisonous talc” in the company’s beloved product was her killer.
J&J didn’t tell the FDA that at least three tests by three different labs from 1972 to 1975 had found asbestos in its talc – in one case at levels reported as “rather high.”
If it’s true that Baby Powder can kill you, half of the people Posting here would already be dead and gone.
After the Roundup Case the Lawyer Commercials for anyone who has Leukemia (like I do) have been nonstop. My attitude, shit happens. I’m not going to sue someone because I killed some weeds with Poison and ended up with Leukemia (like that really happens). I didn’t drink or snort the stuff. That would be, you know, STUPID...
Heck, many of us were alive when Lead Based Paint was used. Who would think to eat Paint Chips when they were Kids? Nobody I knew.
I used to play with Mercury that came in a Chemical Set my Parents bought me. I played with it, I didn’t eat it. Anyone here know a Kid they grew up who was Hospitalized for Mercury Poisoning? Me neither.
The whole thing is just the latest version of Ambulance Chasing for People who are upset that they never hit the Lottery.
“makes great scrambled eggs too, try it sprinkle some in”
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Serious? I just may try that to find out!
You only live one earthly life and at 62 I can spare an upset stomach once or twice trying new things. LOL
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