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Though we’re regularly exposed to poisons and toxins in our food (think the bitter taste in coffee and tea) and on the airwaves (think Alice Cooper’s “Poison” and Britney Spears’s “Toxic”), we often don’t realize how widespread and influential they’ve been in shaping our society.
