series. you re listening to skillet. they are the featured performer, they have been here before and they re absolutely fantastic. you have seen the stories about the air quality here in new york city and right now the air quality according to my app is 135% unhealthy percent. you re very in touch with your emotions. so skillet will be out there playing, can you play guitar in this type of smog. i think if you re a metal band, rock on. they probably have a smoke pot anyway. when you look at the window it s is hazy but we also have a couple guys by the name of john that are in front of the building and they re burning sdsh that hickory? or applewood? steve, i think that is applewood and we re smoking up some amazing ribs for everybody here. we have a little bit of a you don t have to go to a wedding to have a champagne tower, we ll bring you rib tower. are they allowed to burn wood in the city. the pizza guys are not allowed. so we re going to be sending out some
overseas. but after the white house announced it, the pharma ran ads against it. ultimately, unfortunately for people going through cancer treatment, their doctors are having to ration the drugs and that does not sound good. one final story for you and we look at the pop season on the really, aspertaine, apparently it is about to be cited by the w.h.o. has perhaps a cancer causer, a carsinogen are you about that in. i m more worried about the craving that the artificial
“When they said lung cancer you could have knocked us over with a feather,” Leah recalls “It didn’t even seem in the realm of possibilities because I have led a healthy life and my family had no history of lung cancer.”
to keep asbestos out of talcum powder. asbestos is a known cancer causer. a complex case but a big impact on the people who were victimized there, the alleged victims as well as a lot of other consumers. thanks very much. thanks, pete williams. and joining me now gardner harris who covered johnson & johnson for about a decade in both the new york times and the wall street journal and is writing a book on the company. let s talk about the origins of this. i am not asking you a legal question, but are we talking about negligence here from johnson & johnson or resistance to being more consumer friendly once they knew of the problem? so the history here, andrea, is the history of the company johnson & johnson itself.
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