Should Q-tips quit being made and sold at stores?

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People use them mainly to clean their ears, but you're not supposed to stick them in your ears. Doctors recommend not to. So why are they still being made and sold at stores when you're not supposed to use them?

There's multiple uses for Q-tips. The fact that some people use them for inappropriate tasks shouldn't be an excuse to stop selling them, especially so long as demand exists.

What else would you use to stuff glitter down your urethra?

They can be used to groom flower petals so they are more symmetrical for photographs.

I've used them to put on eye shadow.

Maybe they should quit making and selling vehicles because of all the bad drivers that kill and injure hundreds or even thousands of people horribly every year. But it's not going to happen.

And then there's the alcohol that people consume that leads to many of those deaths and injuries. Should alcohol be banned? Not gonna happen.

Guns? Forget it.

Some people go swimming, and they drown. Maybe nobody should be allowed to swim anymore.

Stairs. I just know one day I'll fall down the stairs and snap my neck. But we still have stairs. If they were all turned into escalators I'd likely be more afraid to use them.

I assume this was so you could feel like a unicorn by pissing sparkles?

Just because someone could misuse a merchandise, does not mean that stores should stop carrying them altogether.

Sometimes there is just one correct usage of a merchandise. Everything else: misuse ("abuse").

Tomatoes could be used for food fights. That does not prove that stores should stop selling tomatoes.

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***(footnote) ( from age 15 til 41 (and counting), been digging in ears with bobby pin. Every day. Feels relaxing in a way that nothing else does. @ age 15, while trying to dig in ear with qtip, cotton came off and stuck in ear. Terrified of going deaf or something drastic, but nothing has happened. I think if something bad was going to happen as a result of getting cotton wad stuck in ear, it would've happened the first 26 years, not the second 26 years.)

Let's assume that
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Very handy for cleaning the heads of tape recorders and a few other things. I'd be annoyed if somebody decided I shouldn't have access to them any more.

But:
https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/your-environ ... s-guidance

I can see their motive, but I use cotton buds and so-called single-use plastics responsibly - i.e. not very often and with careful attention to proper disposal. I don't like not having access to cheap stuff. A lot of "single use" items can actually be used many times over. I often use cheap plastic stuff for applications they weren't made for.

I was gonna mention that there has been a push for a long time to ban guns because guns kill people despite the fact that guns have other uses like hunting as well as plinking for fun & to help practice motor-skills & eye-hand coordination.
Switchblades are illegal in most parts of the US despite the fact there has been very little violence or accidents due to their use or misuse when compared with guns. Switchblades can be handy for outdoor activities like hunting & fishing as well as DIY projects. I have one for stimming at home despite it being illegal in my state & I never cut myself or used it for any type of violence or crime(I never brought it outside since I first brought it in my apartment)

Yes,and it's worth noting that for how widespread their misuse is, the number of injuries are pretty low.

A couple years ago I actually got some Q-tip fuzz stuck in my ear when I went too far with it cuz my ear was feeling very itchy. I had to go to my doc & have my ear flushed out with water. It took a lot of flushing & was kinda painfull. I also had ringing in my ear for two weeks after. At least the two nurses doimg it were very cute with personality & looks They were wondering how I handled the flushing so well. I woulda let them harvest my organs if they wanted Anyways... My doc said I had thick ear-wax & prescribed me some ear-wax removal drops that didn't really help. Since then I started using some kinda metal ear scraper tool that tends to work better than Q-tips & I haven't used Q-tips since.