So do you avoid going outside to reduce exposure to environmental pollutants?
Water fluoridation is a net-benefit to society.
Water fluoridation is a net-benefit to society.
You can't avoid water for too long though. Ingesting whatever is in the water supply is mandatory. I can't avoid flouride in my water any more than I can avoid Nitrogen when I breathe. I have no choice in the matter. It's the lack of choice that many object to, not the health effects of flouride per se.
Personally, if given the choice, I'd probably still take flouride. Having it in the water is convenient. Mandatory, but convenient.
You could also buy oxygen generators to avoid breathing as much nitrogen, but that's probably not a great idea in the long run.
If you are worried, you can get a gravity filter and take it out yourself.
Banning more than one daily triple cheese burger would be net benefit to society as well. Likely more than we’re getting on dental cost savings. I doubt most would be okay with that though.
The only food I am aware of that has strong evidence that it contributes to poor health outcomes is sugary sodas. (The only other nutritional thing that consistently shows a negative impact on BMI is dieting: for everything else, populations are too heterogeneous for effects to be consistent. There are people whose combination of genetics + lifestyle make two or more triple cheese burgers a day a perfectly healthy diet.)
Outright bans and limitations on size of soda cups were both struck down by the courts, but soda taxes have been an effective public health intervention that reduce consumption and improve health outcomes: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/... And they do get widespread support among technocrats.