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  • I was taking the train back from Yaoundé the other night when I learned about some new usages for VapoRub, popular American remedy for chest colds.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Kate Fleurange 2009

  • Well the particular Doctor/Salesman wandering the aisle of train car 683 while I was trying to sleep was selling VapoRub.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Kate Fleurange 2009

  • Check out whose closet Padma would like to raid, what she can't live without, and her hysterical worst childhood fashion memory, which involves a jar of VapoRub used as a projectile.

    Padma Lakshmi: How I Scarred My Mother & Other Fashion Memories (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • I was taking the train back from Yaoundé the other night when I learned about some new usages for VapoRub, popular American remedy for chest colds.

    Vapo-Fabulous Kate Fleurange 2009

  • The bond-buying program "was like Vicks VapoRub for markets—no cure but it eased symptoms," says Sean M.

    Sluggish Hiring Seen as a Threat to Recovery Phil Izzo 2011

  • When you have small children, you cannot take to your bed and watch television and huff VapoRub.

    10 Things To Do Before You Become A Parent | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Islington Mill, James Street, SatMarc RowlandsTop Of The Pops witnessed many surreal moments, but few more so than when then the camera zoomed to a knowingly placed tub of Vicks VapoRub as the chemical suit-clad Altern 8 pounded out their top three hit Activ 8.

    Clubs picks of the week 2012

  • In a recent study in Pediatrics, children with cough and cold symptoms improved the most when their parents rubbed their chests with Vicks VapoRub, rather than with a placebo ointment.

    The cure for the common cold? There is none 2011

  • You stay in bed all day, drinking hot steamy drinks and slurping chicken soup and watching bad game shows and soap operas and Dr. Phil and maybe thumbing through some tabloids and napping and just generally enjoying the Vicks VapoRub-scented experience of convalescence.

    10 Things To Do Before You Become A Parent | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Well the particular Doctor/Salesman wandering the aisle of train car 683 while I was trying to sleep was selling VapoRub.

    Vapo-Fabulous Kate Fleurange 2009

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