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Every one of these kept killing for years after the proof was already in.
Radium tonics were sold as health drinks for roughly three decades before the deaths became impossible to ignore.
Leaded petrol is the darkest of them. The men making it were hallucinating and dying in the factories by 1924. The authorities cleared it for the public anyway, and it was not banned worldwide until 2021.
DDT was the friendly household miracle for about twenty-five years before the ban arrived.
Cigarettes kept doctors in the adverts well into the 1950s, and the full reckoning took decades more.
The morphine baby syrups ran for the better part of seventy years.
Notice the shape. In every case, a few awkward people saw it early and said so plainly, and were told to calm down and stop frightening everyone.
The lag is rarely about how long the truth takes to surface. It surfaces early. What takes the decades is the establishment getting over its embarrassment and saying so out loud.
Somewhere inside that lag, right now, sits at least one thing on your own shelf. The only open question is which.