Tylenol: The 70-Year Safety Gamble Your Grandma Endures
For over 70 years, Tylenol has been the unchallenged champion of over-the-counter painkillers, nervously cradled in every grandma's medicine cabinet and every college student's regret-fueled nightstand. Despite its relentless global ubiquity, Johnson & Johnson's pride and joy periodically faces murmurings about its safety—as if popping a pill should come with a side of suspense. The drug's murky history is a wink-and-nod reminder that taking acetaminophen might just be the pharmaceutical equivalent of playing Russian roulette with slightly smaller bullets. Yet, undeterred, Tylenol soldiers on, selling billions, quietly reminding us all that ‘safe enough’ is an oddly flexible marketing term.
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Tylenol: that 70-year-old trusted friend who’s also that weird uncle nobody talks about. Still selling billions despite whispers that it might sometimes be less ‘safe’ and more ‘please-don't-ask.’ We’re all terrible drivers of our own lives, even with painkillers.
If Tylenol was a person, it’d be the long-married spouse who’s been cheating for decades but somehow still gets invited to family dinners.
Taking Tylenol is like trusting a rickety old bridge that’s survived for 70 years; looks stable, but don’t be shocked if a plank goes missing.
Source: Statnews | Published: 9/25/2025 | Author: Megan Molteni
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