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Show Page 12 The Utah Independent October 21, 1976 Fluoridation is like suicide-af- ter you join the statistics it is too late to change your mind DEAR FELLOW UTAHNS Since 90,000,000 Americans have been forced to drink fluoride poisoned water, kidney failure has climbed to fourth place as the cause of death in the United States. Little puffs of cigarette every day can eventually smoke cause lung cancer. Little doses of fluoride poisoned water every day can eventually cause gastric cancer. Utah has the lowest rate of fluoridation of any state, and also the lowest cancer rate'. LETS KEEP Help stamp IT THAT WAY'. out this water poisoning mania. is ten times as poisonous as arsenic. if the Sodium DON'T DRINK hole in a tooth corpses have good teeth? preferable to a hole in the ground. A IT. is fluoride cares, Who still Incontrovertible statistics: "Fluoridation Census 1969," U.S. Government Printing Office 1970 Division of Dental -791, Health, Bethesda., Md., 1970, and "U.S. Cancer Mortality by County: 1950-196- DHEW 9," Publication Institute, Bethesda, 74-- 61 5. National Cancer Md., 1974. Excess cancer death National average in No. (NIH) rate cities and fluoridation in relation to the of one million or more: 1960 census. Date Water City Cancer Death Rate Fluoridated 1 . Baltimore 1952 2. 3. 4. 5. 34 Philadelphia 1954 27 24 Detroit 6. Chicago New York 8. 1965 1956 1957 1954 Cleveland 7. Houston Los Angeles Higher Higher Higher 22 Higher 20 Higher Not Not 18 fluoridated fluoridated 8 Higher Lower . National Average death rate from cancer climbed to an all time- high in 1975 - up 2.3. The highest ever - Deseret News 7976 - 355,000 The U.S. - died of cancer in 1975. PURE WATER COMMITTEE 780 THIRD AVENUE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH biflallTa Proposal A Advertisement paid by PURE WATER COMMITTEE FREEDOM FROM COMPULSORY FLUORIDATION AND MEDICATION ACT Should a law be adopted, the purpose of which shall be: 1. To prohibit the State Board of Health from adding fluorides and other medications to any public water supply, and 2. To prohibit fluoridation or other medication of any public water supply except when authorized to do so pursuant to an initiative petition approved by a vote of the majority of the users of said water supply. FOR AGAINST |