J&J vows appeal after US jury hits it with record $1.5 billion talc cancer award

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2. This will be greatly reduced and it should be

Asbestos exists naturally in talc. Back when I was a kid, it was considered an acceptable risk, we were surrounded by asbestos in floor tiles, house siding, furnace cement, pipe insulation. It was very useful stuff and the scandal really didn't break until large clusters of rare lung cancers started showing up in workers and their families.

I suppose the reductin in this judgment will come based on whether cases of lung disease can be directily attributed to appropriate use of the baby powder or if the cases are mainly among unprotected workers from miners through packagers.