Actually, I believe that those who want fluoride should be the ones buying it.
Fluoridated tap water is used for bathing, cooking, in cold mist humidifiers and to make many of the foods and beverages people consume. But there is no fluoride information on the labels.
Those for and against fluoridation agree that too much fluoride is dangerous and that everyone should monitor their daily fluoride intake
One place to start is the USDA fluoride database:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/Fluoride/Fluoride.html
Dispensing fluoride based on thirst without concern for need, overdosage, side effects or lack of teeth, is irresponsible and wasting my taxes.
Further, studies indicate that silicofluorides added to water supplies cause children to absorb more lead from their environment.
High blood lead levels are linked to higher rates of tooth decay which is probably one of the reasons that low-income children in fluoridated big cities have high rates of tooth decay
As a weekday resident of NYC, I’ve never seen a low-income child drinking tap water (probably because I don’t spend time inside their homes) and rarely if ever seen one drinking bottled water (because neither they nor their parents are interested in drinking anything that isn’t extremely sweet). These kids are guzzling soda and sugary “fruit” drinks by the gallon, and I doubt that tap water drinking fountains are available in the public schools — if they get water at school, I think it’s all bottled. Very few of them think of water as something one drinks. I can’t imagine how they’d be ingesting fluoride in sufficient quantities to cause them to absorb more lead.