Americans, apparently we’re too dumb to take Tylenol.  A whopping 200 of us die each year from overdosing.  It’s a scary statistic, I know.  Thank God we have the FDA to come to our rescue.

The government agency is deciding whether it will place limits on the sale of over the counter products that contain Acetaminophen.  Most prominent among the offenders are Tylenol and Nyquil, which the nanny state says are causing liver disease and an alarming number of deaths.  Last year alone 200 people died.

Yup, 200.  To put that in perspective, there were 37,248 fatal US auto accidents in 2007.  4000 Americans die each year from choking on their food.  About 3500 people die each year from drowning, 700 from riding bicycles, 900 from plane crashes, and roughly 5,000 from eating food that’s either gone bad or carries various pathogens.

If two hundred deaths is the new standard for what the government controls, the Nanny State has its work cut out for it. 

We’re better off with their involvement, though, because this morning I tempted fate and took a shower…  It’s an activity fraught with chlorinated water which, according to the The National Academy of Sciences, causes a certain type of cancer that kills almost 1000 people each year.

Hopefully, the White House has been alerted.

 -Robert Laurie