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Tylenol bottles laced with cyanide lead to shifts in drug packaging, and a series of new tampering laws.

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The impact of bottles of Tylenol being laced with cyanide in stores and bought by the general public leads to four deaths in various parts of the country. The person or persons who cause(s) this harm will never be found or named.