In 1982 Tylenol was the absolute leader in the painkiller field, outselling the next four leading painkillers combined. Tylenol was the most successful over-the-counter product in the United States with over one hundred million users. Accounting for 13 percent of Johnson & Johnson's year-to-year sales growth and 33 percent of the company's year-to-year profit growth at the time. However that all came in a horrific end in the fall of 1982 when people in the Chicago area started dropping dead after taking extra strength Tylenol.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/17/us/the-1982-tylenol-murders-an-enduring-mystery

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/10/1186906874/james-lewis-suspect-tylenol-poisonings-dies

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/james-lewis-suspect-in-the-1982-tylenol-murders-dies-at-76

https://abc7chicago.com/james-lewis-tylenol-murders-killer-cause-of-death-chicago/13598220/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/us/james-lewis-tylenol-poisonings-dead.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tylenol-murders-1982

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