New Breath Mint Angers Police

It’s not just breath mints from Hershey that anger the local po-po. Duh! KYW 1060 reports area police are upset with a new breath mint called AntiPoleez.

As you can tell, the breath mint is Swiss made. (That’s apparently what police officers look like in Switzerland, and I’ll be moving there later today.) The product’s website gets all complicated on us: “AntiPoleez does not just mask the unwanted odor with heavy mint or fruit sent, it eliminates it and does not leave any other. The unique combination of components work to increase the consumption of odor producing molecules by the epithelium of the mucous coat of the upper respiratory passages resulting in clean, fresh breath.”

Whoa! This is the most controversial breath mint ever! Although the website says not to drink and drive and suggests you use the product if you eat a tuna sandwich and are called to a big meeting right afterward, that the product is called AntiPoleez might give you an idea of what it’s used for: Fooling Prohibition-era police officers after you’ve left the speakeasy. You ain’t gonna get me, Johnny Law!

Hilariously, the head of DARE in Upper Dublin is angry because the product might encourage kids to drink: “Putting a product like this out is saying it’s OK to drink, and it’ll influence them to get in a car drunk, and this will make it OK for them.” In addition to making kids seem like automaton zombies who follow whatever the product near the counter of the 7-11 tells them to, let me remind you that nearly every study of DARE has proved absolutely zero effect on drug use. And some studies say it encourages drug use. Whoops!

Area Police Irked by Breath Mint Marketed as Anti-DUI Tool [KYW 1060]