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Critics of water fluoridation

Pinellas County commissioners voted 4-3 on Oct 4, 2011, to stop fluoridating water for about 700,000 county residents. During the debate that preceded the vote, critics of water fluoridation, said fluoride was originally added to the water in the Jewish ghettos created by Nazi Germany.

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