# "Killed by Tylenol" illustration

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killed-by-tylenol-illustration/35942>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 6, 2000, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killed-by-tylenol-illustration/35942 "2000-10-06T12:28:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Yuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/50afbb/32.png) [@Yuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yuck)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killed-by-tylenol-illustration/35942/1 "2000-10-06T12:28:00Z")

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I realize that the illustrator is not Cecil (it’s “Slug” right?), but I think that the illustration should be truer to the article.

[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000929.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000929.html), Cecil’s column “Does Tylenol + alcohol = liver failure?”, shows the poor guy’s kidneys failing, or does he have two livers in his back?

C’mon, Cecil, the kidney failure bit was just an afterthought - show the liver failing!

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**Author:** ![Another\_County\_Heard\_From](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@Another\_County\_Heard\_From](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_County_Heard_From)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killed-by-tylenol-illustration/35942/2 "2000-10-06T13:34:28Z")

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I would guess that Cecil won’t let Slug use a yellow crayon.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killed-by-tylenol-illustration/35942/3 "2000-10-06T20:39:03Z")

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I asked the same question in the Tylenol and Alcohol thread, but it seems to have been overlooked.

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killed-by-tylenol-illustration/35942/4 "2000-10-07T17:24:30Z")

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Although Cecil no doubt thinks of Slug as “the illustrator for my columns”, my guess is that Slug thinks of Cecil as merely being “my straight man” – i.e. Cecil’s job is to drone on about some obscure topic just long enough to inspire Slug, the _real_ star. And if two oozing kidneys turns out to be funnier/more visually interesting than one liver, then Slug will no doubt follow his muse in that direction.

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**Author:** ![Amulet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amulet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amulet)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killed-by-tylenol-illustration/35942/5 "2000-10-09T01:06:29Z")

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Maybe Slug took his inspiration from this:

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> Let’s not forget kidney damage. A December 1994 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a daily tablet of acetaminophen for a year or 1,000 pills over a lifetime **doubled the odds of kidney failure**. [emphasis mine]