Are you drinking fluoridated water? In America, drinking water is fluoridated on a state by state basis. Take a look at the percentage of the U.S. population on public water supply systems receiving fluoridated drinking water, according to the CDC.

Here's what you need to know:

1. You don't have to be against fluoride supplementation to be against water fluoridation. If you believe in fluoride, why not preserve your right to fluoridate selectively, based on individual need? When fluoride is added to your drinking, cooking and bathing water, it is much more difficult to control how much you're getting.

2. Fluoride is a toxic waste by-product of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industries.

3. Fluoride is strongly suspected to cause cancer and other illnesses. Chief Chemist Emeritus from the U.S. National Cancer Institute says fluoride causes more human cancer death, faster, than any other chemical.

4. Fluoride is more acutely toxic than lead.

5. Advanced symptoms of fluoride poisoning include acidosis, coma, cardiac arrythmias, cardiac failure, respiratory paralysis, death. Other documented symptoms: convulsions, central nervous system depression, severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.

6. Concern about fluoride toxicity is the reason that babies and young children are advised to avoid drinking fluoridated water and refrain from using fluoride toothpaste - they don't know how to spit it out.

7. All fluoride toothpaste in the U.S. contains contains the accepted estimated minimum lethal dose of fluoride (5mg/kg). Just 42% of a tube of Colgate will kill 2 year old child.

8. Fluoride causes low thyroid function and is implicated in thyroid diseases such as Hashimoto's and some doctors believe it is to blame for rampant thyroid-related disorders.

9. Tea drinkers beware. Fluoride is concentrated in tea leaves. Brewed caffeinated black teas have the highest. Herbal teas have the lowest.

10. Other countries don't agree with the U.S. when it comes to fluoridation.