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With support of the Oregon Health Authority, the city council voted to begin fluoridation in 2014.
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Until last year, Portland was the largest city in the U.S. not to approve fluoridation.
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In Phoenix last year, a public stir prompted re-examination of fluoridation, which the city decided to continue.
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Many "No" activists say they oppose fluoridation because it represents lack of choice.
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Examples include vaccination, fluoridation of water, and the genetic engineering of crop plants.
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Decemberists Manager Jason Colton declined to comment on the tweets and said no member of the band wishes to discuss fluoridation.
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"I concluded fluoridation is a safe, cost-effective and common sense approach to promoting public health, " said Nick Fish, Portland's City Council Commissioner.
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Water fluoridation and chlorination underwent similarly false accusations.
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As part of that experience, she assisted at a clinic on a nearby Native American reservation, where she learned about water fluoridation issues on tribal land and helped to provide dental care to an at risk population.
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"How can you hate on the GOP for being creationist science deniers and then go on about how vaccines and fluoridation are poison, " reads a January post on his Twitter account, which is linked from the website colinmeloy.com.
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Fluoridation has sparked a lasting debate.
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Gabriel Taussig, the chief of the city's administrative law division, pointed to two Board of Health decisions that were challenged in courts and remain on the books today: window guards on buildings with children in them and fluoridation of the city's water supply.
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