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• n  plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood)
• v  plug with a tampon

• But the impact on toxic-shock cases is unclear When Procter Gamble put its first tampon product into national distribution, the ads boasted, "It even absorbs the.
• Scientists quickly linked the disease to the use of tampons, particularly the "superabsorbent" variety, but the reasons for the tampon connection remained obscure.
• One product is recalledEver since they were introduced more than 40 years ago, tampons have been a liberating force for women, allowing them to wear more revealing clothing,.

News & Articles

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• Bath Salts, Babes and Bills: John McAfee Returns With Bizarre YouTube Sketch
  Just yesterday, Betabeat was considering the brief, bizarre rein of McAfee Antivirus founder and bath salts enthusiast John McAfee. How brightly he shone in those brilliant months last winter when he was on the run in South America for allegedly murdering someone in Belize. There was the tampon disguise and the one that probably made him look like a murderer ; and of course, that time Vice ...
  June 19, 2013 - The New York Observer

Quotes

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• Armistead Maupin in Bay Area Reporter
  I find it discouraging that people are contributing money to put those ads on the air. They are not strong enough,said novelist Armistead Maupin. "I think the soft ad with the two women at the kitchen table is a parody of a tampon ad."
• Rahm Emanuel in Politico
  Take your f-ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say,Emanuel told an unnamed male aide during a meeting in his office, wrote Alter, who asserts that reports Emanuel "mellowed over time were untrue."