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1920s: Radium in Watches
"Not to worry," their bosses told them. "If you swallow any radium, it'll make your cheeks rosy."
The women at Radium Dial sometimes painted their teeth and faces and then turned off the lights for a laugh.
Many of the women developed bone cancer because of radiation emitted by the ingested radium.
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