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Florida becomes 2nd state to ban fluoride from public drinking water (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I hate to break it to you, but they never stopped using it in airplanes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The dose makes the poison, we can see in blood lead levels over time that we've basically solved the problem by eliminating it from car exhaust, which we breathe pretty regularly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

If you live within 1 mile of an airport you will have high amounts of lead in your blood. Maybe not as much as before, but still higher than there should be.