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That sippy cup in your child’s mouth may be dangerous! Well, no, not really. But you might be filling it with non-government approved liquids, and we can’t have that, now can we? New York doesn’t think so, anyway (Hat-tip: OpenMarket):

The Legislature, for the second year in a row, approved a measure requiring baby bottles and sippy cups to have warning labels about the dangers of childhood tooth decay.

Ex-Gov. David Paterson vetoed last year’s measure.

“I can show you photos of children who go to bed with sippy cups,” said Mark Feldman, executive director of the state Dental Association, which pressed for the bill.

“All you see is little black stumps that is all that is left of the teeth,” he added.

If only the statists would turn their eyes to the dangers of overgovernment. I can see it now, statehouses all across the land forced to display giant warning labels: “Warning, meddlesome legislators may produce freedom decay!”

 

New York Overgovernment