Zen Magnets: 6 Years of Battle End in Victory
People love to say that they shouldn't be prevented from owning these toys just because some other person's child might get injured, and I sympathise with that point of view. But at their peak, three thousand children a year were visiting emergency departments for suspected magnet ingestion (a number which declined after the CPSC ban).[1]<p>Lawn darts were banned on a mere 750 ED visits annually.[2] The fact is, we live in a society and (as with fireworks and other dangerous toys that could be labelled 'adults only') the cost of being able to have these magnets on your desk is probably dozens or hundreds of kids getting very sick.<p>[1]<a href="https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29135818" rel="nofollow">https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29135818</a>
[2]<a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-darts-banned" rel="nofollow">http://mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-da...</a>