A TRUE energy drink - Radithor Radium Drink

[packman]

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"...there was a time when energy drinks actually contained real energy. The active ingredient in these drinks was radium, a radioactive element that releases a packet of radiant energy with every atomic decay. While the connection between consuming a radioactive element and reaping a perceived energy boost is tenuous at best, it didn't stop people in the early 1900s from ignoring the known downsides of ingesting radioactivity and risking the long-term health consequences."

A well - to-do Pittsburgh advocate was so enthusiastic about this drink ( at an adjusted price of $15 a bottle - not for the average man) that he died - in 1932 - a horrible death due to radioactive poisoning. So bad was his absorption of the radium that he was buried in a lead-coffin and is even today his body is still kept in that lead coffin due to its danger to anyone who dares open it.

http://www.livescience.com/56738-wild-history-of-radioactive-energy-drinks.html

[hunter]

1. X-ray machines in shoe stores were another radiation hazard.

My parents remember those.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

Bad enough for customers to put their feet in them, but utterly horrible for shoe store employees who were exposed to x-rays every day.

Of course everyone smoked then too.

I remember people smoking in the grocery store, dropping their butts on the floor and stepping on them to extinguish them. The guys sweeping the floors were kept busy.

I'm glad those are things my children never experienced.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Ha! I remember all those butts on the floor too. Disgusting.

This is an interesting article on how careless we were with radiation. And how diabolical business can be.

But yeah, let's get rid of the EPA, and OSHA, and the Energy Department.

UNDARK AND THE RADIUM GIRLS

https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/

In 1922, a bank teller named Grace Fryer became concerned when her teeth began to loosen and fall out for no discernible reason. Her troubles were compounded when her jaw became swollen and inflamed, so she sought the assistance of a doctor in diagnosing the inexplicable symptoms. Using a primitive X-ray machine, the physician discovered serious bone decay, the likes of which he had never seen. Her jawbone was honeycombed with small holes, in a random pattern reminiscent of moth-eaten fabric.

As a series of doctors attempted to solve Grace’s mysterious ailment, similar cases began to appear throughout her hometown of New Jersey. One dentist in particular took notice of the unusually high number of deteriorated jawbones among local women, and it took very little investigation to discover a common thread; all of the women had been employed by the same watch-painting factory at one time or another.