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How Q-tips Got Into Our Ears

The warning label has been on the box for 50 years. We were too embarrassed to read it.

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Rani Monson
May 17, 2026
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The Q-tip mystery solved. Why we keep doing something the box warns us against.
25 billion Q-tips a year with a warning label we don’t read.
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