Over at Conservativegrapevine, John linked to this story from the Daily Mail in the UK. Here's the jist of it....
Mouthwashes can cause oral cancer and should be removed from supermarket shelves, an expert said last night.
Smoking and alcohol consumption are well-established risk factors in oral cancer which is diagnosed in 5,000 people in the UK each year, and causes 1,600 deaths.
Professor McCullough, from Melbourne University, said the alcohol in mouthwash allows cancer-causing substances such as nicotine to penetrate the lining of the mouth more easily.
I swear! There is no little joy of life that smelly-hippy do-gooders won't try to take away. Trial lawyers must have run out of people to sue. So they awarded a grant to some hack scientist to "discover" that mouthwash causes cancer. Now the lawyers can go after any company that makes mouthwash on behalf of some idiot, life-time smoker who got mouth cancer. But they won't blame the cigarettes because they've already bled the tobacco companies dry. Mouthwash manufacturers now have the deepest pockets in town.
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