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# Turn around fluoride tide
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/turn-around-fluoride-tide-editor/
- Published: 2007-01-26T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:54:28.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Marissa Rubin Santa Monica*

(Re: “Not all smiles for fluoride treatment,” page 3, Jan. 19) At a time when fluoride environmental concerns are center stage in our awakening as a human race, the choice to intentionally add a toxic industrial waste product to our Santa Monica water supply is unconscionable.

This misguided decision was truly not representative of the majority and will set the stage for health conditions far worse than fluorosis. The package is wrapped in “free installation,” but within lurks “perpetual economic burden” for Santa Monicans in years to come. I say reverse the decision.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 26, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)