Here's what most people don't understand about these magnets: Once you play with them for a bit, you realize there's only a very limited number of things you ca

Here's what most people don't understand about these magnets: Once you play with them for a bit, you realize there's only a very limited number of things you can do with them. Pretty quickly, you discover one of the limited number of things is stuff like making fake ear rings or nose rings etc. If you count the number of thin skin folds on the human body, there's only a couple (ear lobes, nostril, cheek, tongue, maybe eyelid and various parts of the genitalia). A significant portion of those are an orifice into the digestive tract. What you find happens is that kids start off making ear rings and then graduate onto making tongue rings and the tongue is just thick enough that the attachment is weak and it presents a high risk of swallowing. Here's the second thing that most people fail to appreciate: The CSPS's main concern was not the absolute level of danger, it was the how non-obvious the threat model is. There are plenty of things that are far more dangerous on an absolute level but are allowed because most people understand the risk model and can take appropriate steps to mitigate. If you asked a thousand people who previously knew nothing about the magnets, what they thought the main danger was, people would talk about the potential choking hazard or the chemicals in the lining maybe being toxic but I bet virtually nobody would ever think about intestinal pinching. You could have your child swallow one of these magnets every week and see them come out fine and be completely blase and then the one week they swallow two, they're suddenly in need of life threatening surgery. I don't have any strong opinions on whether these things should be banned or not but I think the CSPSs case is a lot stronger that what's commonly presented.