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by add-sub-mul-div 260 days ago
If the suggestion is that it should be outlawed, there's no reason to punish the vastly outnumbering population who can follow directions and take it safely. You can also accidentally kill yourself in a car every time you get into one if you're not careful. Many actually do.

A pregnant woman who ignores symptoms during pregnancy is putting the fetus at greater risk than one who follows her doctor's suggested treatment, which may include acetaminophen.

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> there's no reason to punish the vastly outnumbering population who can follow directions and take it safely.

If you take two pills of extra strength Tylenol (2x500mg) every six hours as directed by the instructions, you’ve reached the threshold for liver injury.

Around 50,000 people a year (U.S.) visit the ER for having poisoned themselves with acetaminophen. A lot of people harm themselves without realizing it. I warned a friend about her Tylenol habit, which helped her connect “dizziness” to the Tylenol she’d just taken.

So, it is easy to screw up.

But the second line of the instructions is a limit of 6 pills per 24 hours.

And “178,000 people die from excessive drinking each year”, so, prohibition?

> which helped her connect “dizziness” to the Tylenol she’d just taken.

Anecdotal bullshit