Avon bankrupted by talc cancer lawsuits

Avon, the great aunt of multilevel marketing shenanigans, at least had half-decent products for its agents to rope their friends and family into selling. Unfortunately many of them contained talc, whose mineral composition includes asbestos, generating a slim but lawsuit-sustaining link to ovarian cancer and an overwhelmingly strong one to mesothelioma. — Read the rest
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