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Default Doctors Want Hot Dogs Redesigned to Prevent Choking in Children

On 2010-03-16, brooklyn1 > wrote:

> Every food presents a choking hazard... no one food presents more of a
> choking hazard than another.


Exactly.



> It's not what food, it's how one eats..
> some don't chew properly, other's talk while eating, some are easily
> distracted and so eat unconsiously......


And never eat lying down!

I've almost choked to death 3 times in my life, 2 as an adult. The
last time, I literally ran downstairs to alert my neighbor for help
and blew the chunk on his doorstep, thank gawd! He wasn't home.

nb