Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million in latest talc cancer case

[Warpy]

2. Did they have a duty to warn?

Geologists and miners knew talc contains asbestos, it's how the mineral occurs naturally.

Considering how many of us grew up in an absolute cloud of talcum powder and how few have developed asbestosis and asbestos related cancers because of it, I have to wonder about co-morbidities in the cases that did develop. Asbestos was in everything untiol the 70s. I think the Navy didn't ban it in shiips until the late 80s or early 90s.

But yeah, there should have been some fine print on the can about trace amounts of asbestos.

Still, we grew up with asbestos house siding, asbestos shingles, asbestos floor tiles, asbestos furnace insulation, asbestos pipe insulation, asbestos on old wiring. If we lived in old cities, we were surrounded by the shit)